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THE STATE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
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Chart 1.
Ideological orientation, stance on Europe and hypothetical choice of way of functioning of the EU in the
European Council (situation on 5/3/2018)
Member
States
Party or
coalition in
government (*)
Ideological
orientation
of Head of
State (*)
Ideological
orientation
of Head of
Government (*)
Usual
representative
of state at
European Council
meetings (**)
Stance of usual
representative
of state at
European
Council
meetings (***)
Preferred way
of functioning
of the EU
for the usual
representative
of the state
at European
Council
meetings (1)
Presidential
or legislative
elections to be
held in 2018
Germany
PP + S&D S&D (Frank-Walter
STEINMEIER)
PP (Angela
MERKEL)
HG
E
3
-
Austria
PP + EN G (Alexander VAN
DER BELLEN)
PP (Sebastian
KURZ)
HG
E
3
-
Belgium
PP+ LD
-
LD (Charles
MICHEL)
HG
E
3
-
Bulgaria
PP
PS (Rumen
RADEV)
PP (Boyko
BORISOV)
HS
E
3
-
Cyprus
PP
PP (Nikos
ANASTASIADIS)
PP (Nikos
ANASTASIADIS)
HS
E
3
Presidential
elections 4/2/18
Croacia
PP
PP (Kolinda
GRABAR-
KITAROVIC)
PP (Andrej
PLENKOVIC)
HS
E
3
-
Denmark
LD
-
LD (Lars LØKKE
RASMUSSEN)
HG
N
4
-
Slovakia
S&D
IN (Adrej KISKA)
S&D (Robert
FICO)
HG
N
4
-
Slovenia
S&D
S&D (Borut
PAHOR)
S&D (Miro
CERAR)
HG
E
3
Legislative
elections 07/18
Spain
PP
-
PP (Mariano
RAJOY)
HG
E
3
-
Estonia
PP + LD + S&D PP (Kersti
KALJULAID)
LD (Jüri RATAS)
HS
E
3
-
Finland
PP + LD PP (Sauli NIINISTÖ) LD (Juha SIPILÄ)
HS
E
3
Presidential
elections 28/1/18
France
S&D
S&D (Emmanuel
MACRON)
S&D (Edouard
PHILIPPE)
HS
E
3
-
Greece
UL + CR
PP (Prokopis
PAVLOPOULOS)
UL (Alexis
TSIPRAS)
HG
E
3
-
Hungary
PP
PP (János ÁDER)
PP (Viktor
ORBÁN)
HG
N
4
Legislative
elections 8/4/18
Ireland
PP
S&D (Michael
HIGGINS)
PP (Leo
VARADKAR)
HG
E
3
Presidential
elections 10/18
Italy
S&D
S&D (Sergio
MATTARELLA)
S&D (Paolo
GENTILONI)
HG
E
3
Legislative
elections 4/3/18
Latvia
LD
LD (Raimonds
VEJONIS)
LD (Maris
KUCINSKIS)
HG
N
4
Legislative
elections 6/10/18
Lithuania
LD + S&D
IN (Dalia
GRYBAUSKAITÉ)
LD (Saulius
SKVERNELIS)
HS
E
3
-
Luxembourg LD + S&D + G
-
LD (Xavier
BETTEL)
HG
E
3
-
Malta
S&D
S&D (Marie-Louise
COLEIRO PRECA)
S&D (Joseph
MUSCAT)
HG
E
3
-
Netherlands
LD
-
LD (Mark RUTTE)
HG
N
4
-
Poland
CR
CR (Andrzej
DUDA)
CR (Mateusz
MORAWIECKI)
HG
N
4
-
Portugal
S&D + UL
PP (Marcelo
REBELO DE
SOUSA)
S&D (António
COSTA)
HG
E
3
-
Czech
Republic
LD + S&D
S&D (Miloš
ZEMAN)
LD (Andrej
BABIŠ)
HG
N
4
Presidential
elections 27/1/18
Romania
S&D + LD
PP (Klaus
IOHANNIS)
S&D (Vasilica
VIORICA
DAˇ NCILAˇ )
HS
E
3
-
Sweden
S&D
-
S&D (Stefan
LÖFVEN)
HG
E
3
Legislative
elections 9/9/18
*The abbreviations that appear in this column are the political groups of the European Parliament that the domestic parties to which the Heads of State or of Government
belong have joined or will probably join, namely: EN: Europe of Nations and Freedoms Group, CR: European Conservatives and Reformists Group, PP: Group of the
European People’s Party, S&D: Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, LD: Group of the Alliance of Liberals and
Democrats for Europe, G: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance and UL: Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left. The abbreviation IN
stands for independent. The symbol - denotes monarchies.
** The abbreviations that appear in this column stand for: HS: Head of State, HG: Head of Government.
*** The abbreviations that appear in this column stand for: E: more Europeanist stance, N: more nationalist stance.
(1) According to the scenarios described in the
White paper on the future of Europe.