Parties in the European Council during 2002
This article describes the party affiliations of the leaders of each
Qualified Majority Voting
.
During the period in question there were changes of the governing party in Portugal and the Netherlands, with PES parties in both getting replaced by EPP parties. This prompted a reversal of which party held a plurality of seats on the council; the EPP maintained that plurality until 11 January 2007, when the government change in Austria returned the plurality to PES.
Summary
Party | 1 January 2002 | 6 April 2002 | 25 June 2002 | 22 July 2002 | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
# | QMV | # | QMV | # | QMV | # | QMV | |
Party of European Socialists | 7 | 42 | 6 | 38 | 6 | 38 | 5 | 32 |
European People's Party | 5 | 34 | 6 | 39 | 6 | 39 | 7 | 44 |
European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party | 2 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 8 |
Independent
|
1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Alliance for Europe of the Nations | — | — | — | — | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
List of leaders (1 January 2002)
Member-state | Votes | Leader | National party | European party |
---|---|---|---|---|
Germany | 10 | Gerhard Schröder | SPD | PES |
France | 10 | Jacques Chirac | RPR | EPP |
United Kingdom | 10 | Tony Blair | Lab | PES |
Italy | 10 | Silvio Berlusconi | FI | EPP |
Spain | 8 | José María Aznar | PP | EPP |
Netherlands | 5 | Wim Kok | PvdA | PES |
Greece | 5 | Costas Simitis | PA.SO.K.
|
PES |
Belgium | 5 | Guy Verhofstadt | VLD
|
ELDR |
Portugal | 5 | António Guterres | PS | PES |
Sweden | 4 | Göran Persson | SAP | PES |
Austria | 4 | Wolfgang Schüssel | ÖVP | EPP |
Denmark | 3 | Anders Fogh Rasmussen | V | ELDR |
Finland | 3 | Paavo Lipponen | SDP | PES |
Ireland | 3 | Bertie Ahern | FF | Independent
|
Luxembourg | 2 | Jean-Claude Juncker | CSV | EPP |
Changes
Affiliation
Date | Member-state | Leader | National party | European party |
6 April | Portugal | José Manuel Barroso | PPD/PSD | EPP |
25 June | Ireland[1] | Bertie Ahern | FF | AEN |
22 July | Netherlands | Jan Peter Balkenende | CDA | EPP |
^ – The AEN is founded, with its membership including Ireland's Fianna Fáil, which held office under Bertie Ahern.
National party changes
- On 17 November, the governing French RPR merged with other right-wing parties to form the UMP. The successor party continued the RPR's EPP membership.
See also
External links
- Council of the European Union (official website)