Parties in the European Council between July and December 2013

On 1 July 2013, Croatia became the 28th member state of the European Union.

This resulted in change of the influence each member state has, as well as its Qualified Majority Voting.

This article describes the party affiliations of leaders of each member-state represented in the European Council during the year 2013.

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.

More populous states have greater influence in the council, in accordance with the system of Qualified Majority Voting.