Parties in the European Council during 2005
This article describes the party affiliations of the leaders of each
Qualified Majority Voting
.
Summary
Party | 1 January 2005 | 25 March 2005 | 4 April 2005 | 31 October 2005 | 22 November 2005 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
# | QMV | # | QMV | # | QMV | # | QMV | # | QMV | |
Party of European Socialists | 7 | 146 | 8 | 158 | 8 | 158 | 7 | 131 | 6 | 102 |
European People's Party | 12 | 131 | 11 | 119 | 10 | 115 | 10 | 115 | 11 | 144 |
European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party | 3 | 26 | 3 | 26 | 4 | 30 | 4 | 30 | 4 | 30 |
Independent
|
2 | 11 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 11 |
Alliance for Europe of the Nations | 1 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 34 | 2 | 34 |
List of leaders (1 January 2005)
Member-state | Votes | Leader | National party | European party |
---|---|---|---|---|
Germany | 29 | Gerhard Schröder | SPD | PES |
United Kingdom | 29 | Tony Blair | Lab | PES |
France | 29 | Jacques Chirac | UMP | EPP |
Italy | 29 | Silvio Berlusconi | FI | EPP |
Spain | 27 | José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero | PSOE | PES |
Poland | 27 | Marek Belka | SLD | PES |
Netherlands | 13 | Jan Peter Balkenende | CDA | EPP |
Greece | 12 | Kostas Karamanlis | ND | EPP |
Czech Republic | 12 | Stanislav Gross | ČSSD
|
PES |
Belgium | 12 | Guy Verhofstadt | VLD
|
ELDR |
Hungary | 12 | Ferenc Gyurcsány | MSZP | PES |
Portugal | 12 | Pedro Santana Lopes | PPD/PSD | EPP |
Sweden | 10 | Göran Persson | SAP | PES |
Austria | 10 | Wolfgang Schüssel | ÖVP | EPP |
Slovakia | 7 | Mikuláš Dzurinda | SDKÚ | EPP |
Denmark | 7 | Anders Fogh Rasmussen | V | ELDR |
Finland | 7 | Matti Vanhanen | Kesk. | ELDR |
Ireland | 7 | Bertie Ahern | FF | AEN |
Lithuania | 7 | Valdas Adamkus | Independent
| |
Latvia | 4 | Aigars Kalvītis | TP | EPP |
Slovenia | 4 | Janez Jansa
|
SDS | EPP |
Estonia | 4 | Juhan Parts | RP | EPP |
Cyprus | 4 | Tassos Papadopoulos | DIKO | Independent [1]
|
Luxembourg | 4 | Jean-Claude Juncker | CSV | EPP |
Malta | 3 | Lawrence Gonzi | PN | EPP |
^ 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 during the year
Affiliation
Date | Member-state | Leader | National party | European party |
25 March | Portugal | José Sócrates | PS | PES |
4 April | Estonia | Andrus Ansip | RE | ELDR |
31 October | Poland | Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz | PiS
|
AEN |
22 November | Germany | Angela Merkel | CDU
|
EPP |
Office-holder only
Date | Member-state | Leader | National party | European party |
25 April | Czech Republic | Jiří Paroubek | ČSSD
|
PES |
See also
External links
- Council of the European Union (official website)