Parties in the European Council during 2001

This article describes the party affiliations of the leaders of each member-state represented in the European Council during the year 2001. The list below gives the political party that each head of government, or head of state, belonged to at the national level, as well as the European political alliance to which that national party belonged. 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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Summary Party1 January 200111 June 200127 November 20016 December 2001#QMV#QMV#QMV#QMVParty of European Socialists845845742742Independent32321321313European People's Party314424424534European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party15152828

List of leaders (1 January 2001) Member-stateVotesLeaderNational partyEuropean partyGermany10Gerhard SchröderSPDPESFrance10Jacques ChiracRPRIndependentUnited Kingdom10Tony BlairLabPESItaly10Giuliano AmatoIndependentSpain8José María AznarPPEPPNetherlands5Wim KokPvdAPESGreece5Costas SimitisPA.SO.K.PESBelgium5Guy VerhofstadtVLDELDRPortugal5António GuterresPSPESSweden4Göran PerssonSAPPESAustria4Wolfgang SchüsselÖVPEPPDenmark3Poul Nyrup RasmussenAPESFinland3Paavo LipponenSDPPESIreland3Bertie AhernFFIndependentLuxembourg2Jean-Claude JunckerCSVEPP

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Affiliation DateMember-stateLeaderNational partyEuropean party11 JuneItalySilvio BerlusconiFIEPP27 NovemberDenmarkAnders Fogh RasmussenVELDR6 DecemberFrance Jacques ChiracRPREPP

– Rally for the Republic, which held office under Jacques Chirac, became an EPP member.

See also Presidency of the Council of the European Union

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