Parties in the European Council during 1999

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The member-states of the European Union by the European party affiliations of their leaders, as of 1 January 1999.

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.

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Summary

PartyJanuary 1, 199912 July 1999
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Party of European Socialists 10591059
European People's Party 315210
Independent 213213
European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party 0015

List of leaders (1 January 1999)

Member-stateVotesLeaderNational partyEuropean party
Germany10 Gerhard Schröder SPD PES
France10 Jacques Chirac RPR Independent
United Kingdom10 Tony Blair Lab PES
Italy10 Massimo D'Alema DS PES
Spain8 José María Aznar PP EPP
Netherlands5 Wim Kok PvdA PES
Greece5 Costas Simitis PA.SO.K. PES
Belgium5 Jean-Luc Dehaene CD&V EPP
Portugal5 António Guterres PS PES
Sweden4 Göran Persson SAP PES
Austria4 Viktor Klima SPÖ PES
Denmark3 Poul Nyrup Rasmussen A PES
Finland3 Paavo Lipponen SDP PES
Ireland3 Bertie Ahern FF Independent
Luxembourg2 Jean-Claude Juncker CSV EPP

Changes

Affiliation

DateMember-stateLeaderNational partyEuropean party
12 JulyBelgium Guy Verhofstadt VLD ELDR

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