This article describes the party affiliations of the leaders of each member-state represented in the European Council during the year 1998. 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.
Summary Party1 January 199821 October 199827 October 1998#QMV#QMV#QMVParty of European Socialists8399491059European People's Party425425315Independent323213213
List of leaders (1 January 1998) Member-stateVotesLeaderNational partyEuropean partyGermany10Helmut KohlCDUEPPFrance10Jacques ChiracRPRIndependentUnited Kingdom10Tony BlairLabPESItaly10Romano ProdiIndependentSpain8José María AznarPPEPPNetherlands5Wim KokPvdAPESGreece5Costas SimitisPA.SO.K.PESBelgium5Jean-Luc DehaeneCD&VEPPPortugal5António GuterresPSPESSweden4Göran PerssonSAPPESAustria4Viktor KlimaSPÖPESDenmark3Poul Nyrup RasmussenAPESFinland3Paavo LipponenSDPPESIreland3Bertie AhernFFIndependentLuxembourg2Jean-Claude JunckerCSVEPP
Changes
Affiliation DateMember-stateLeaderNational partyEuropean party21 OctoberItalyMassimo D'AlemaDSPES27 OctoberGermanyGerhard SchröderSPDPES
See also Presidency of the Council of the European Union
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