Parties in the European Council

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The states of the European Union by the European party affiliations of their leaders, as of 21 December 2011
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This article describes the party affiliations of the leaders of each member-state represented in the European Council. The list below gives the political party that each head of government, or head of state, belongs to at the national level, as well as the European political alliance to which that national party belongs. The states are listed from most to least populous. More populous states have greater influence in the council, in accordance with the system of Qualified Majority Voting.

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Party # QMV
European People's Party 14 188
Independent 4 62
Party of European Socialists 4 33
Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists 2 41
European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party 2 17
Party of the European Left 1 4
Total 27 345

[edit] List of leaders

The last change to the list of leaders was on 21 December 2011, when Mariano Rajoy became the President of the Government of Spain.

Member-state Votes Leader Title Start of mandate Picture National
party
European
party
Elections
Last Next
 Germany 29 Angela Merkel Federal Chancellor
(Prime Minister)
2005 Angela Merkel (2008) (cropped).jpg CDU EPP 2009 2013?
 France 29 Nicolas Sarkozy President 2007 Flickr2 - europeanpeoplesparty - EPP Summit October 2010 (105)-2.jpg UMP EPP 2007 2012
 United Kingdom 29 David Cameron Prime Minister 2010 DavidCameron.jpg Conservatives AECR 2010 2015?
 Italy 29 Mario Monti President of the Council of Ministers
(Prime Minister)
2011 MarioMonti.jpg Independent 2008 2013?
 Spain 27 Mariano Rajoy President of the Government
(Prime Minister)
2011 Rajoy2011.jpg PP EPP 2011 2015
 Poland 27 Donald Tusk Chairman of the Council of Ministers
(Prime Minister)
2007 Donald Tusk 3.jpg PO EPP 2011 2015?
 Romania 14 Traian Băsescu President 2007
(also in office:
2004-2007)
Basescu.jpg Independent
(previously PD-L; none during presidency officially according to the Constitution)
2009 2014?
 Netherlands 13 Mark Rutte Prime Minister 2010 Rutte.jpg VVD ELDR 2010 2014?
 Greece 12 Lucas Papademos Prime Minister 2011 Παπαδήμος.jpg Independent 2009 2012
 Belgium 12 Elio Di Rupo Prime Minister 2011 ElioDiRupo.jpg PS PES 2010 2014?
 Portugal 12 Pedro Passos Coelho Prime Minister 2011 PassosCoelho.jpg PSD EPP 2011 2015?
 Czech Republic 12 Petr Nečas Prime Minister 2010 Nečas.jpg ODS AECR 2010 2014?
 Hungary 12 Orbán Viktor Prime Minister 2010
(also in office:
1998–2002)
Viktor Orban 2010.png Fidesz EPP 2010 2014?
 Sweden 10 Fredrik Reinfeldt Minister of the State
(Prime Minister)
2006 Fredrik Reinfeldt on January 28, 2011.jpg Moderaterna EPP 2010 2014?
 Austria 10 Werner Faymann Federal Chancellor
(Prime Minister)
2008 Faymann.jpg SPÖ PES 2008 2013?
 Bulgaria 10 Boyko Borisov Prime Minister 2009 Boyko Borisov 3.jpg GERB EPP 2009 2013?
 Denmark 7 Helle Thorning-Schmidt Minister of the State
(Prime Minister)
2011 Thorning-Schmidt.jpg SD PES 2011 2015?
 Slovakia 7 Iveta Radičová Prime Minister 2010 Iveta Radičová.jpg SDKÚ–DS EPP 2010 2012
 Finland 7 Jyrki Katainen Prime Minister 2011 Jyrki Katainen A4.jpeg Kok. EPP 2011 2015?
 Ireland 7 Enda Kenny Taoiseach
(Prime Minister)
2011 Kenny 2011.jpg FG EPP 2011 2016?
 Lithuania 7 Dalia Grybauskaitė President 2009 Grybauskaitė.jpg Independent 2009 2014?
 Latvia 4 Valdis Dombrovskis Prime Minister 2009 Valdis Dombrovskis.jpg JL EPP 2011 2015?
 Slovenia 4 Borut Pahor Prime Minister 2008 Borut Pahor.jpg SD PES 2008 2011
 Estonia 4 Andrus Ansip Prime Minister 2005 Balticfreedom 1c558 6405.Andrus Ansip.jpg Reformierakond ELDR 2011 2015?
 Cyprus 4 Dimitris Christofias President 2008 Dimitris Christofias.jpg AKEL PEL[1] 2008 2013?
 Luxembourg 4 Jean-Claude Juncker Prime Minister 1995 Juncker 2010.jpg CSV EPP 2009 2014?
 Malta 3 Lawrence Gonzi Prime Minister 2004 Lawrence Gonzi 2009.jpg PN EPP 2008 2013?

^ AKEL holds only observer status with the Party of the European Left.

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