Presidencies of EU Council of Ministers since 1958

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The Six (1958-72)

Year First six months Head of state or   government Second six months Head of state or   government
1958 Belgium Achile Van Acker West Germany Konrad Adenauer
1959 France Charles de Gaulle Italy Antonio Segni
1960 Luxembourg Pierre Werner Netherlands Jan de Quay
1961 Belgium Gaston Eyskens/Theo Lefèvre West Germany Konrad Adenauer
1962 France Charles de Gaulle Italy Amintore Fanfani
1963 Luxembourg Pierre Werner Netherlands Jan de Quay/Victor Marijnen
1964 Belgium Theo Lefèvre West Germany Ludwig Erhard
1965 France Charles de Gaulle Italy Aldo Moro
1966 Luxembourg Pierre Werner Netherlands Jo Cals/Jelle Zijlstra
1967 Belgium Paul Vanden Boeynants West Germany Kurt Georg Kiesinger
1968 France Charles de Gaulle Italy Giovanni Leone
1969 Luxembourg Pierre Werner Netherlands Petrus de Jong
1970 Belgium Gaston Eyskens West Germany Willy Brandt
1971 France Georges Pompidou Italy Emilio Colombo
1972 Luxembourg Pierre Werner Netherlands Barend Biesheuvel

 

EC 9 (1973-80)

Year First six months Head of state or   government Second six months Head of state or   government
1973 Belgium Gaston Eyskens/Edmund Leburton Denmark Anker Jorgensen
1974 West Germany Willy Brandt/Helmut Schmidt France Valéry Giscard d’Estaing
1975 Ireland Liam Cosgrave Italy Aldo Moro
1976 Luxembourg Gaston Thorn Netherlands Joop Den Uyl
1977 United Kingdom James Callaghan Belgium Leo Tindemans
1978 Denmark Anker Jorgensen West Germany Helmut Schmidt
1979 France Valéry Giscard d’Estaing Ireland Jack Lynch
1980 Italy Francesco Cossiga Luxembourg Pierre Werner

 

 

 

EC 10 (1981-85)

Year First six months Head of state or   government Second six months Head of state or   government
1981 Netherlands Andreas van Agt United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher
1982 Belgium Wilfried Martens Denmark Poul Schlüter
1983 West Germany Helmut Kohl Greece Andreas Papandreou
1984 France François Mitterrand Ireland Garrett Fitzgerald
1985 Italy Bettino Craxi Luxembourg Jacques Santer

 

EC/EU 12 (1986-94)

Year First six months Head of state or   government Second six months Head of state or   government
1986 Netherlands Ruud Lubbers United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher
1987 Belgium Wilfried Martens Denmark Poul Schlüter
1988 West Germany Helmut Kohl Greece Andreas Papandreou
1989 Spain Felipe González France François Mitterrand
1990 Ireland Charles Haughey Italy Giulio Andreotti
1991 Luxembourg Jacques Santer Netherlands Ruud Lubbers
1992 Portugal Aníbal Cavaco Silva United Kingdom John Major
1993 Denmark Poul Nyrup Rasmussen Belgium Jean-Luc Dehaene
1994 Greece Andreas Papandreou Germany Helmut Kohl

 

EU 15 (1995-2003)

Year First six months Head of state or   government Second six months Head of state or   government
1995 France Jacques Chirac Spain Felipe González
1996 Italy Lamberto Dini/Romano Prodi Ireland John Bruton
1997 Netherlands Wim Kok Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker
1998 United Kingdom Tony Blair Austria Viktor Klima
1999 Germany Gerhard Schröder Finland Paavo Lipponen
2000 Portugal António Guterres France Jacques Chirac
2001 Sweden Göran Persson Belgium Guy Verhofstadt
2002 Spain José-María Aznar Denmark Anders Fogh Rasmussen
2003 Greece Costas Simitis Italy Silvio Berlusconi

 

EU 25 (2004-06)

Year First six months Head of state or   government Second six months Head of state or   government
2004 Ireland Bertie Ahern Netherlands Jan Peter Balkenende
2005 Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker United Kingdom Tony Blair
2006 Austria Wolfgang Schüssel Finland Matti Vanhanen

 

EU 27 (since 2007)

Year First six months Head of state or   government Second six months Head of state or   government
2007 Germany Angela Merkel Portugal José Sócrates
2008 Slovenia Janez Janša France Nicolas Sarkozy
2009 Czech Republic Mirek Topolánek Sweden Fredrick Reinfeldt
2010 Spain José Luis Zapatero Belgium Yves Leterme
2011 Hungary Viktor Orbán Poland Donald Tusk
2012 Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt Cyprus Dimitris Christofias

Source: Martin Westlake and David Galloway, The Council of the European Union, 2006 (charts merged and updated for 2007-12).

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