Parties in the European Council during 2000

This article describes the party affiliations of the leaders of each member-state represented in the European Council during the year 2000. 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.

Summary Party1 January 20004 February 200025 April 2000#QMV#QMV#QMVParty of European Socialists1059955845Independent213213323European People's Party210314314European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party151515

List of leaders (January 1, 2000) Member-stateVotesLeaderNational partyEuropean partyGermany10Gerhard SchröderSPDPESFrance10Jacques ChiracRPRIndependentUnited Kingdom10Tony BlairLabPESItaly10Massimo D'AlemaDSPESSpain8José María AznarPPEPPNetherlands5Wim KokPvdAPESGreece5Costas SimitisPA.SO.K.PESBelgium5Guy VerhofstadtVLDELDRPortugal5António GuterresPSPESSweden4Göran PerssonSAPPESAustria4Viktor KlimaSPÖPESDenmark3Poul Nyrup RasmussenAPESFinland3Paavo LipponenSDPPESIreland3Bertie AhernFFIndependentLuxembourg2Jean-Claude JunckerCSVEPP

Changes

Affiliation DateMember-stateLeaderNational partyEuropean party4 FebruaryAustriaWolfgang SchüsselÖVPEPP25 AprilItalyGiuliano AmatoIndependent

See also Presidency of the Council of the European Union

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