This article describes the party affiliations of the leaders of each member-state represented in the European Council during the year 2005. 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 200525 March 20054 April 200531 October 200522 November 2005#QMV#QMV#QMV#QMV#QMVParty of European Socialists71468158815871316102European People's Party1213111119101151011511144European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party326326430430430Independent211211211211211Alliance for Europe of the Nations171717234234

List of leaders (1 January 2005) Member-stateVotesLeaderNational partyEuropean partyGermany29Gerhard SchröderSPDPESUnited Kingdom29Tony BlairLabPESFrance29Jacques ChiracUMPEPPItaly29Silvio BerlusconiFIEPPSpain27José Luis Rodríguez ZapateroPSOEPESPoland27Marek BelkaSLDPESNetherlands13Jan Peter BalkenendeCDAEPPGreece12Kostas KaramanlisNDEPPCzech Republic12Stanislav GrossČSSDPESBelgium12Guy VerhofstadtVLDELDRHungary12Ferenc GyurcsányMSZPPESPortugal12Pedro Santana LopesPPD/PSDEPPSweden10Göran PerssonSAPPESAustria10Wolfgang SchüsselÖVPEPPSlovakia7Mikuláš DzurindaSDKÚEPPDenmark7Anders Fogh RasmussenVELDRFinland7Matti VanhanenKesk.ELDRIreland7Bertie AhernFFAENLithuania7Valdas AdamkusIndependentLatvia4Aigars KalvītisTPEPPSlovenia4Janez JansaSDSEPPEstonia4Juhan PartsRPEPPCyprus4Tassos PapadopoulosDIKOIndependent Luxembourg4Jean-Claude JunckerCSVEPPMalta3Lawrence GonziPNEPP

DIKO's MEP is a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the European Parliament, but the party is not formally attached to any pan-European organization.

Changes during the year

Affiliation

DateMember-stateLeaderNational partyEuropean party25 MarchPortugalJosé SócratesPSPES4 AprilEstoniaAndrus AnsipREELDR31 OctoberPolandKazimierz MarcinkiewiczPiSAEN22 NovemberGermanyAngela MerkelCDUEPP

Office-holder only DateMember-stateLeaderNational partyEuropean party25 AprilCzech RepublicJiří ParoubekČSSDPES

See also Presidency of the Council of the European Union

External links Council of the European Union (official website)