presidency of the council of EU heads of state or government From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The President of the European Council is a position that was created by the Treaty of Lisbon. The President is the chairman of the European Council, which is the meeting of the leaders of all the member states.
President of the European Council | |
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European Council | |
Style | Mr. President |
Status | Presiding and chief administrative officer |
Member of | European Council (non-voting) |
Residence | Europa building |
Seat | Brussels, Belgium |
Appointer | European Council by qualified majority |
Term length | 2.5 years, renewable once |
Constituting instrument | Treaties of the European Union |
Precursor | Chairman of the European Council |
Formation | 1 December 2009 |
First holder | Herman Van Rompuy |
Website | consilium.europa.eu |
It's a very diplomatic figure, and it's not like a head of state: the President does not have any power to make decisions about the European Union. The Union has several other presidents, such as the president of the European Parliament and the president of the European Commission. But the President of the European Council, casually but wrongly known as The President of Europe, is the face by which the European Union is known to the rest of the world. The more practical aspects of this task are the responsibility of the High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, the Commissioner responsible for external affairs.
On 2 July 2019, the European Council elected Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel as the successor to Donald Tusk as President of the European Council for the period from 1 December 2019 to 31 May 2022.[1]
Year | Period | Office Holder | European party | State | |
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1975 | Jan–Jun | Liam Cosgrave | European People's Party | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Aldo Moro | European People's Party | ![]() | ||
1976 | Jan–Jun | Gaston Thorn | Liberal and Democratic Group | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Joop den Uyl | Party of European Socialists | ![]() | ||
1977 | Jan–Jun | James Callaghan | Party of European Socialists | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Leo Tindemans | European People's Party | ![]() | ||
1978 | Jan–Jun | Anker Jørgensen | Party of European Socialists | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Helmut Schmidt | Party of European Socialists | ![]() | ||
1979 | Jan–Jun | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Jack Lynch | European Progressive Democrats | ![]() | ||
Dec | Charles Haughey | European Progressive Democrats | |||
1980 | Jan–Jun | Francesco Cossiga | European People's Party | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Pierre Werner | European People's Party | ![]() | ||
1981 | Jan–Jun | Dries van Agt | European People's Party | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Margaret Thatcher | Independent | ![]() | ||
1982 | Jan–Jun | Wilfried Martens | European People's Party | ![]() | |
Jul–Sep | Anker Jørgensen | Party of European Socialists | ![]() | ||
Sep–Dec | Poul Schlüter | European People's Party | |||
1983 | Jan–Jun | Helmut Kohl | European People's Party | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Andreas Papandreou | Party of European Socialists | ![]() | ||
1984 | Jan–Jun | François Mitterrand | Party of European Socialists | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Garret FitzGerald | European People's Party | ![]() | ||
1985 | Jan–Jun | Bettino Craxi | Party of European Socialists | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Jacques Santer | European People's Party | ![]() | ||
1986 | Jan–Jun | Ruud Lubbers | European People's Party | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Margaret Thatcher | Independent | ![]() | ||
1987 | Jan–Jun | Wilfried Martens | European People's Party | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Poul Schlüter | European People's Party | ![]() | ||
1988 | Jan–Jun | Helmut Kohl | European People's Party | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Andreas Papandreou | Party of European Socialists | ![]() | ||
1989 | Jan–Jun | Felipe González | Party of European Socialists | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | François Mitterrand | Party of European Socialists | ![]() | ||
1990 | Jan–Jun | Charles Haughey | European Democratic Alliance | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Giulio Andreotti | European People's Party | ![]() | ||
1991 | Jan–Jun | Jacques Santer | European People's Party | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Ruud Lubbers | European People's Party | ![]() | ||
1992 | Jan–Jun | Aníbal Cavaco Silva | European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | John Major | Independent | ![]() | ||
1993 | Jan | Poul Schlüter | European People's Party | ![]() | |
Jan–Jun | Poul Nyrup Rasmussen | Party of European Socialists | |||
Jul–Dec | Jean-Luc Dehaene | European People's Party | ![]() | ||
1994 | Jan–Jun | Andreas Papandreou | Party of European Socialists | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Helmut Kohl | European People's Party | ![]() | ||
1995 | Jan–May | François Mitterrand | Party of European Socialists | ![]() | |
May–Jun | Jacques Chirac | Independent | |||
Jul–Dec | Felipe González | Party of European Socialists | ![]() | ||
1996 | Jan–May | Lamberto Dini | European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party | ![]() | |
May–Jun | Romano Prodi | Party of European Socialists | |||
Jul–Dec | John Bruton | European People's Party | ![]() | ||
1997 | Jan–Jun | Wim Kok | Party of European Socialists | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Jean-Claude Juncker | European People's Party | ![]() | ||
1998 | Jan–Jun | Tony Blair | Party of European Socialists | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Viktor Klima | Party of European Socialists | ![]() | ||
1999 | Jan–Jun | Gerhard Schröder | Party of European Socialists | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Paavo Lipponen | Party of European Socialists | ![]() | ||
2000 | Jan–Jun | António Guterres | Party of European Socialists | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Jacques Chirac | European People's Party | ![]() | ||
2001 | Jan–Jun | Göran Persson | Party of European Socialists | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Guy Verhofstadt | European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party | ![]() | ||
2002 | Jan–Jun | José María Aznar | European People's Party | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Anders Fogh Rasmussen | European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party | ![]() | ||
2003 | Jan–Jun | Costas Simitis | Party of European Socialists | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Silvio Berlusconi | European People's Party | ![]() | ||
2004 | Jan–Jun | Bertie Ahern | Union for Europe of the Nations | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Jan Peter Balkenende | European People's Party | ![]() | ||
2005 | Jan–Jun | Jean-Claude Juncker | European People's Party | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Tony Blair | Party of European Socialists | ![]() | ||
2006 | Jan–Jun | Wolfgang Schüssel | European People's Party | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Matti Vanhanen | European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party | ![]() | ||
2007 | Jan–Jun | Angela Merkel | European People's Party | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | José Sócrates | Party of European Socialists | ![]() | ||
2008 | Jan–Jun | Janez Janša | European People's Party | ![]() | |
Jul–Dec | Nicolas Sarkozy | European People's Party | ![]() | ||
2009 | Jan–May | Mirek Topolánek | Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists | ![]() | |
May–Jun | Jan Fischer | Independent | |||
Jul–Nov | Fredrik Reinfeldt | European People's Party | ![]() |
Nº | Portrait | Name (birth–death) |
Country | Term of office | European political party | National political party | |
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1 | ![]() |
Herman Van Rompuy (born 1947) |
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1 December 2009 | 30 November 2014[2] | EPP | CD&V |
Previously Prime Minister of Belgium (2008–2009), Van Rompuy was the first permanent officeholder, chosen as a low profile consensus builder. He led a task force on reforming the EU's economic governance, drafting the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) treaty and amendment. He is a supporter of greater economic integration but against the accession of Turkey to the EU. | |||||||
2 | ![]() |
Donald Tusk (born 1957) |
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1 December 2014[3] | 30 November 2019 | EPP | PO |
Previously Prime Minister of Poland (2007–2014), he is the longest serving head of government of the Third Republic of Poland. Tusk's Civic Platform won a plurality of seats in the 2011 parliamentary election, meaning that he became the first Polish Prime Minister to be reelected since the fall of communism. | |||||||
3 | ![]() |
Charles Michel (born 1975) |
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1 December 2019 | ALDE | MR | |
Prime Minister of Belgium (since 2014). |
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