This article describes the party affiliations of leaders of each member-state represented in the European Council during the year 2010. 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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Summary Party1 January 201011 May 201029 May 20108 July 201013 July 201014 October 2010#QMV#QMV#QMV#QMV#QMV#QMVEuropean People's Party121841218413196142031420313190Party of European Socialists7101672672565565565Independent3313312192191717European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party425425425425425538Party of the European Left141414141414Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists00129129129241241
List of leaders (1 January 2010) Member-stateVotesLeaderNational partyEuropean partyGermany29Angela MerkelCDUEPPFrance29Nicolas SarkozyUMPEPPUnited Kingdom29Gordon BrownLabPESItaly29Silvio BerlusconiPdLEPPSpain27José Luis Rodríguez ZapateroPSOEPESPoland27Donald TuskPOEPPRomania14Traian BăsescuIndependentEPPNetherlands13Jan Peter BalkenendeCDAEPPGreece12George PapandreouPA.SO.K.PESBelgium12Yves LetermeCD&VEPPPortugal12José SócratesPSPESCzech Republic12Jan FischerIndependentHungary12Gordon BajnaiIndependentSweden10Fredrik ReinfeldtMEPPAustria10Werner FaymannSPÖPESBulgaria10Boyko BorisovGERBEPPDenmark7Lars Løkke RasmussenVELDRSlovakia7Robert FicoSMER-SDPESFinland7Matti VanhanenKesk.ELDRIreland7Brian CowenFFELDRLithuania7Dalia GrybauskaitėIndependentLatvia4Valdis DombrovskisJLEPPSlovenia4Borut PahorSDPESEstonia4Andrus AnsipREELDRCyprus4Demetris ChristofiasAKELPELLuxembourg4Jean-Claude JunckerCSVEPPMalta3Lawrence GonziPNEPP
Supported by PD-L AKEL holds only observer status with the Party of the European Left.
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Affiliation DateMember-stateLeaderNational partyEuropean party11 MayUnited KingdomDavid CameronConAECR29 MayHungaryViktor OrbánFideszEPP8 JulySlovakiaIveta RadičováSDKÚ–DSEPP13 JulyCzech RepublicPetr NečasODSAECR14 OctoberNetherlandsMark RutteVVDELDR
Office-holder only DateMember-stateLeaderNational partyEuropean party22 JuneFinlandMari KiviniemiKesk.ELDR
See also Presidency of the Council of the European Union
External links European Council (official website)