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Parties in the European Council during 2018

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This article describes the party affiliations of leaders of each member state represented in the European Council during the year 2018. 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 qualified majority system.

Summary

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Party 1 January 2018 1 June 2 June
# Pop.% # Pop.% # Pop.%
European People's Party 11 37.48% 11 37.48% 10 28.38%
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party 7 9.55% 7 9.55% 7 9.55%
Party of European Socialists 5 16.95% 4 5.15% 5 14.25%
Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists 2 20.32% 2 20.32% 2 20.32%
Party of the European Left 1 2.10% 1 2.10% 1 2.10%
Independent 2 13.66% 3 25.46% 3 25.46%

List of leaders (1 January 2018)

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Member state Pop.%[1] Leader Party
Germany 16.16% Angela Merkel CDU-EPP
France 13.11% Emmanuel Macron LREM-NI
United Kingdom 12.91% Theresa May Con-AECR
Italy 11.80% Paolo Gentiloni PD-PES
Spain 9.10% Mariano Rajoy PP-EPP
Poland 7.41% Mateusz Morawiecki PiS-EACR
Romania 3.84% Klaus Iohannis Ind.[note 1]-EPP
Netherlands 3.34% Mark Rutte VVD-ALDE
Belgium 2.23% Charles Michel MR-ALDE
Greece 2.10% Alexis Tsipras SYRIZA-PEL
Czech Republic 2.07% Andrej Babiš ANO-ALDE
Portugal 2.01% António Costa PS-PES
Sweden 1.97% Stefan Löfven S-PES
Hungary 1.91% Viktor Orbán Fidesz-EPP
Austria 1.72% Sebastian Kurz ÖVP-EPP
Bulgaria 1.38% Boyko Borisov GERB-EPP
Denmark 1.13% Lars Løkke Rasmussen V-ALDE
Finland 1.08% Alexander Stubb Kok.-EPP
Slovakia 1.06% Robert Fico SMER-SD-PES
Ireland 0.94% Leo Varadkar FG-EPP
Croatia 0.80% Andrej Plenković HDZ-EPP
Lithuania 0.55% Dalia Grybauskaitė Ind.
Slovenia 0.40% Miro Cerar SMC-ALDE
Latvia 0.38% Māris Kučinskis V-EPP
Estonia 0.26% Jüri Ratas K-ALDE
Cyprus 0.17% Nicos Anastasiades DISY-EPP
Luxembourg 0.12% Xavier Bettel DP-ALDE
Malta 0.09% Joseph Muscat PL-EPP
  1. ^ Supported by PNL

Changes

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Date State Former Newer
Leader Party Leader Party
22 March Slovakia Robert Fico SMER-SD-PES Peter Pellegrini SMER-SD-PES
1 June Italy Paolo Gentiloni PD-PES Giuseppe Conte Ind.
2 June Spain Mariano Rajoy PP-EPP Pedro Sánchez PSOE-PES
13 September Slovenia Miro Cerar SMC-ALDE Marjan Šarec LMŠ-ALDE

See also

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References

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