This article describes the party affiliations of the leaders of each member-state represented in the European Council during the year 1999. 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 199912 July 1999#QMV#QMVParty of European Socialists10591059European People's Party315210Independent213213European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party0015
List of leaders (1 January 1999) Member-stateVotesLeaderNational partyEuropean partyGermany10Gerhard SchröderSPDPESFrance10Jacques ChiracRPRIndependentUnited Kingdom10Tony BlairLabPESItaly10Massimo D'AlemaDSPESSpain8José María AznarPPEPPNetherlands5Wim KokPvdAPESGreece5Costas SimitisPA.SO.K.PESBelgium5Jean-Luc DehaeneCD&VEPPPortugal5António GuterresPSPESSweden4Göran PerssonSAPPESAustria4Viktor KlimaSPÖPESDenmark3Poul Nyrup RasmussenAPESFinland3Paavo LipponenSDPPESIreland3Bertie AhernFFIndependentLuxembourg2Jean-Claude JunckerCSVEPP
Changes
Affiliation DateMember-stateLeaderNational partyEuropean party12 JulyBelgiumGuy VerhofstadtVLDELDR
See also Presidency of the Council of the European Union
References
External links Council of the European Union (official website)