Parties in the European Council during 2000

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

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Summary

Party1 January 20004 February 200025 April 2000
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Party of European Socialists 1059955845
Independent 213213323
European People's Party 210314314
European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party 151515

List of leaders (January 1, 2000)

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 Guy Verhofstadt VLD ELDR
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
4 FebruaryAustria Wolfgang Schüssel ÖVP EPP
25 AprilItaly Giuliano Amato Independent

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