Christian Democratic parties in Europe

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What is the overall ideology of such parties, since Europeans are generally less religious than Americans?

I can speak of the German ones, CDU and CSU: the former is de facto Christian in name only, the latter is much more socially conservative, yet the Christianity-part is more seen as part of tradition - Germans don't go to church anymore, but celebrate Easter and respect all hallow's eve. Even the CSU has arranged itself with gay marriage, and abortion is traditionally a gray area in germany, and by god, they will keep it that way.
This allows them to argue that abortion is illegal, while at the same time not punishing it.
Mind you, the CSU is catholic, and catholicism is way more comfortable with ambiguity than protestantism, so this solution is fine for them.

Other than that, they are *slowly* becoming ecologically conservative - the CDU faster than the CSU, and are both highly neoliberal, economically.

So... the C in CDU and CSU is there to collect the remaining religious people, but in a way that shouldn't scare away non-religious social conservatives with neoliberal economic views.

In the netherlands, the biggest (catholic ao) goes with everything as long as there's power to hold
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian ... tic_Appeal

but there's a bible belt too, so there's some little parties
eg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed_Political_Party

the party for animals has a seventh-day adventist church veggie @ the helm,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partij_voor_de_Dieren

Belgium goes along the same line, catholics and protestants merged into one party, but split into linguistic blocks later

"Christian democracy equals pro-Europeanism" in the main parties

Christianity is still influential in parts of Europe, and usually of a meatier variety than is encountered in America. The get-rich-quick prosperity gospel, if-you-want-salvation-phone-in-and-give-me-your-life-savings brand of Christianity is rightly found to be abhorrent in Europe.