Editing European People's Party Group (section)

==Membership at formation==
The 38 members in the group on 11 September 1952 were as follows:

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! <br />Member state
! <br />[[Member of the European Parliament|MEPs]]
! <br />Party
! <br />[[Member of the European Parliament|MEPs]]
! <br />Notes
! <br />Sources
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|Belgium
|5
|[[Christian Social Party (Belgium, defunct)|Christian Social Party]]
|5
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*Théodore Lefevre
*Paul Struye
*Pierre Wigny
*Pierre De Smet
*Alfred Bertrand
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|rowspan=2|France
|rowspan=2|5
|Christian People's Party (Saar)
|2
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* [[Franz Singer]]
* [[Erwin Mueller (Saarland)|Erwin Mueller]]
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|[[Popular Republican Movement|Republican People's Movement]]
|3
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* [[François de Menthon]]
* [[Pierre-Henri Teitgen]]
* [[Alain Poher]]
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|rowspan=2|Germany
|rowspan=2|8
|[[Christian Democratic Union of Germany|Christian Democratic Union]]<br />and [[Christian Social Union in Bavaria|Christian Social Union]]
|7
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* [[Günter Henle]]
* [[Eugen Gerstenmaier]]
* [[Heinrich von Brentano]]
* [[Hermann Pünder]]
* [[Franz Josef Strauss]]
* [[Georg Pelster]]
* [[Hermann Kopf]]
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|Federal Union Party
|1
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* [[Helmut Bertram]]
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|Italy
|12
|[[Christian Democracy (Italy)|Christian Democracy]]
|12
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*Pietro Campilli
*Antonio Azara
*Lodovico Benvenuti
*Mario Cingolani
*Francesco Dominedo
*Lodovico Montini
*Angelo Giacomo Mott
*Italo Mario Sacco
*Vinicio Ziino
*Giuseppe Togni
*Antonio Boggiano-Pico
*Armando Sabatini
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|[[Luxembourg]]
|2
|[[Christian Social People's Party]]
|2
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*Fernand Loesch
*Nicolas Margue
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|rowspan=3|Netherlands
|rowspan=3|6
|[[Anti-Revolutionary Party]]
|2
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*J. A. H. J. S. Bruins Slot
*W. Rip
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|[[Catholic People's Party]]
|3
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*M. A. M. Klompé
*E. M. J. A. Sassen
*P. A. Blaisse
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|[[Christian Historical Union]]
|1
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*G. Vixseboxe
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