This article describes the party affiliations of leaders of each member-state represented in the European Council during the year 2007. 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 200711 January 200720 April 200723 May 200716 November 200720 December 2007#QMV#QMV#QMV#QMV#QMV#QMVEuropean People's Party11132101229108101221114910145Party of European Socialists69771078121710771077107Alliance for Europe of the Nations2342342342341717European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party430430430430430534European Democratic Party129129129129129129Movement for European Reform112112112112112112Independent211211211211211211
List of leaders (1 January 2007) Member-stateVotesLeaderNational partyEuropean partyGermany29Angela MerkelCDUEPPUnited Kingdom29Tony BlairLabPESFrance29Jacques ChiracUMPEPPItaly29Romano ProdiIndependent EDPSpain27José Luis Rodríguez ZapateroPSOEPESPoland27Jarosław KaczyńskiPiSAENRomania14Traian BăsescuIndependentEPPNetherlands13Jan Peter BalkenendeCDAEPPGreece12Kostas KaramanlisNDEPPCzech Republic12Mirek TopolánekODSMERBelgium12Guy VerhofstadtVLDELDRHungary12Ferenc GyurcsányMSZPPESPortugal12José SócratesPSPESSweden10Fredrik ReinfeldtMEPPAustria10Wolfgang SchüsselÖVPEPPBulgaria10Sergei StanishevBSPPESSlovakia7Robert FicoSMER-SDPESDenmark7Anders Fogh RasmussenVELDRFinland7Matti VanhanenKesk.ELDRIreland7Bertie AhernFFAENLithuania7Valdas AdamkusIndependentLatvia4Aigars KalvītisTPEPPSlovenia4Janez JanšaSDSEPPEstonia4Andrus AnsipREELDRCyprus4Tassos PapadopoulosDIKOIndependent Luxembourg4Jean-Claude JunckerCSVEPPMalta3Lawrence GonziPNEPP
Supported by PD Prior to 14 October, Prodi had officially aligned himself only with his The Olive Tree coalition rather than any member-party, but he had previously been a member of Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy's ancestor-party and was honorary president of its European parent, the EDP. 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
Affiliation DateMember-stateLeaderNational partyEuropean party11 JanuaryAustriaAlfred GusenbauerSPÖPES20 AprilRomaniaNicolae VăcăroiuPSDPES23 MayRomaniaTraian BăsescuIndependentEPP16 NovemberPolandDonald TuskPOEPP20 DecemberLatviaIvars GodmanisLPP/LCELDR Supported by PD
Office-holder only DateMember-stateNew LeaderNational partyEuropean party16 MayFranceNicolas SarkozyUMPEPP27 JuneUnited KingdomGordon BrownLabourPES
National party changes On 14 October, Prodi's governing The Olive Tree coalition of parties merged into a single Democratic Party. The successor party had yet to determine whether it would continue Daisy's EDP membership; Prodi remained aligned on an individual basis with the EDP.
See also Presidency of the Council of the European Union
External links Council of the European Union (official website)