Editing Fine Gael (section)

==European affiliations==
Fine Gael is a founding member of the [[European People's Party]] (EPP), the largest [[European political party]] comprising liberal conservative and Christian democratic national-level parties from across Europe. Fine Gael's [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]s sit with the [[European People's Party (European Parliament group)|EPP Group]] in the [[European Parliament]], and Fine Gael parliamentarians also sit with the EPP Groups in the [[Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe]] and [[Committee of the Regions]].{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} Young Fine Gael is a member of the [[Youth of the European People's Party]] (YEPP).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Member Organizations |url=https://youthepp.eu/members-organizations/ |access-date=16 October 2024 |website=Youth of European People's Party |date=July 2024 |quote=YFG – Young Fine Gael Ireland}}</ref>

It is inferred from the party's relationship with its European counterparts via membership of the European People's Party that Fine Gael belongs on the [[Centre-right politics|centre-right]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Fine Gael – MSN Encarta |url=http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761580393/fine_gael.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091102122151/http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761580393/Fine_Gael.html |archive-date=2 November 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Barberis |first1=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qps14mSlghcC&pg=PA218 |title=Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations: Parties, Groups and Movements of the 20th Century |last2=McHugh |first2=John |last3=Tyldesley |first3=Mike |publisher=A&C Black |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-8264-5814-8 |page=218}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Harris |first=Eoghan |date=7 January 2007 |title=What Fine Gael needs to do is find its bottom |url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/what-fine-gael-needs-to-do-is-find-its-bottom/26283224.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111106180621/http://www.independent.ie/national-news/what-fine-gael-needs-to-do-is-find-its-bottom-120576.html |archive-date=6 November 2011 |access-date=4 June 2010 |work=Irish Independent}}</ref> The party conforms generally with European political parties that identify themselves as being [[Christian democracy|Christian democratic]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eastwesteurope08.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/fine-gaels-european-strategy/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080708192721/http://eastwesteurope08.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/fine-gaels-european-strategy/|url-status=dead|title=Fine Gael's European Strategy – EAST WEST EUROPE &#124; Ireland and the Wider Europe, 2008|archive-date=8 July 2008|access-date=27 July 2019}}</ref>