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 Party 1 January 2018 1 June 2 June # # # 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)

Member state Eurostat 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.Supported by PNL-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

Changes 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 Presidency of the Council of the European Union

References

External links Council of the European Union (official website)