Historic Office Holders
| Conservative/Christian Democrat | Socialist | Liberal/Centrist | Communist | Independent |
| Year | President of the European Commission |
President of the European Council |
President of the European Parliament |
Presidency of the Council of the European Union |
President of the European Court of Justice |
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| 1958 | 1: Walter Hallstein (I) | 1: Robert Schuman | Belgium | 1: Andreas Matthias Donner | |||||||
| Germany | |||||||||||
| 1959 | France | ||||||||||
| Italy | |||||||||||
| 1960 | 2: Hans Furler | Luxembourg | |||||||||
| Netherlands | |||||||||||
| 1961 | Belgium | ||||||||||
| Germany | |||||||||||
| 1962 | 1: Walter Hallstein (II) | 3: Gaetano Martino | France | ||||||||
| Italy | |||||||||||
| 1963 | Luxembourg | ||||||||||
| Netherlands | |||||||||||
| 1964 | 4: Jean Pierre Duvieusart | Belgium | 2: Charles Léon Hammes | ||||||||
| Germany | |||||||||||
| 1965 | 5: Victor Leemans | France | |||||||||
| Italy | |||||||||||
| 1966 | 6: Alain Poher | Luxembourg | |||||||||
| Netherlands | |||||||||||
| 1967 | Belgium | 3: Robert Lecourt | |||||||||
| 2: Jean Rey | Germany | ||||||||||
| 1968 | France | ||||||||||
| Italy | |||||||||||
| 1969 | 7: Mario Scelba | Luxembourg | |||||||||
| Netherlands | |||||||||||
| 1970 | Belgium | ||||||||||
| 3: Franco Maria Malfatti | Germany | ||||||||||
| 1971 | 8: Walter Behrendt | France | |||||||||
| Italy | |||||||||||
| 1972 | 4: Sicco Mansholt | Luxembourg | |||||||||
| Netherlands | |||||||||||
| 1973 | 5: François-Xavier Ortoli | 9: Cornelis Berkhouwer | Belgium | ||||||||
| Denmark | |||||||||||
| 1974 | Germany | ||||||||||
| France | |||||||||||
| 1975 | Liam Cosgrave | 10: Georges Spénale | Ireland | ||||||||
| Aldo Moro | Italy | ||||||||||
| 1976 | Gaston Thorn | Luxembourg | 4: Hans Kutscher | ||||||||
| Joop den Uyl | Netherlands | ||||||||||
| 1977 | 6: Roy Jenkins | James Callaghan | 11: Emilio Colombo | United Kingdom | |||||||
| Jack Lynch | Belgium | ||||||||||
| 1978 | Anker Jørgensen | Denmark | |||||||||
| Helmut Schmidt | Germany | ||||||||||
| 1979 | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | France | |||||||||
| Jack Lynch | 1: Simone Veil | Ireland | |||||||||
| 1980 | Francesco Cossiga | Italy | 5: Josse Mertens de Wilmars | ||||||||
| Pierre Werner | Luxembourg | ||||||||||
| 1981 | 7: Gaston Thorn | Dries van Agt | Netherlands | ||||||||
| Margaret Thatcher | United Kingdom | ||||||||||
| 1982 | Wilfried Martens | 2: Piet Dankert | Belgium | ||||||||
| Poul Schlüter | Denmark | ||||||||||
| 1983 | Helmut Kohl | Germany | |||||||||
| Andreas Papandreou | Greece | ||||||||||
| 1984 | François Mitterrand | 3: Pierre Pflimlin | France | 6: John Mackenzie-Stuart | |||||||
| Garret FitzGerald | Ireland | ||||||||||
| 1985 | Bettino Craxi | Italy | |||||||||
| Jacques Santer | Luxembourg | ||||||||||
| 1986 | 8: Jacques Delors (I) | Ruud Lubbers | Netherlands | ||||||||
| Margaret Thatcher | United Kingdom | ||||||||||
| 1987 | Wilfried Martens | 4: Henry Plumb | Belgium | ||||||||
| Poul Schlüter | Denmark | ||||||||||
| 1988 | Helmut Kohl | Germany | 7: Ole Due | ||||||||
| Andreas Papandreou | Greece | ||||||||||
| 1989 | 8: Jacques Delors (II) | Felipe González | Spain | ||||||||
| François Mitterrand | 5: Enrique Barón Crespo | France | |||||||||
| 1990 | Charles Haughey | Ireland | |||||||||
| Giulio Andreotti | Italy | ||||||||||
| 1991 | Jacques Santer | Luxembourg | |||||||||
| Ruud Lubbers | Netherlands | ||||||||||
| 1992 | Aníbal Cavaco Silva | 6: Egon Klepsch | Portugal | ||||||||
| John Major | United Kingdom | ||||||||||
| 1993 | 8: Jacques Delors (III) | Poul Nyrup Rasmussen | Denmark | ||||||||
| Jean-Luc Dehaene | Belgium | ||||||||||
| 1994 | Andreas Papandreou | Greece | 8: Gil Carlos Rodriguez Iglesias | ||||||||
| Helmut Kohl | 7: Klaus Hänsch | Germany | |||||||||
| 1995 | 9: Jacques Santer | Jacques Chirac | France | ||||||||
| Felipe González | Spain | ||||||||||
| 1996 | Romano Prodi | Italy | |||||||||
| John Bruton | Ireland | ||||||||||
| 1997 | Wim Kok | 8: José María Gil-Robles | Netherlands | ||||||||
| Jean-Claude Juncker | Luxembourg | ||||||||||
| 1998 | Tony Blair | United Kingdom | |||||||||
| Viktor Klima | Austria | ||||||||||
| 1999 | Gerhard Schröder | Germany | |||||||||
| 10: Manuel Marín | |||||||||||
| 11: Romano Prodi | Paavo Lipponen | 9: Nicole Fontaine | Finland | ||||||||
| 2000 | António Guterres | Portugal | |||||||||
| Jacques Chirac | France | ||||||||||
| 2001 | Göran Persson | Sweden | |||||||||
| Guy Verhofstadt | Belgium | ||||||||||
| 2002 | José María Aznar López | 10: Pat Cox | Spain | ||||||||
| Anders Fogh Rasmussen | Denmark | ||||||||||
| 2003 | Costas Simitis | Greece | 9: Vassilios Skouris |
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| Silvio Berlusconi | Italy | ||||||||||
| 2004 | Bertie Ahern | Ireland | |||||||||
| 12: José Manuel Barroso (I) | Jan Peter Balkenende | 11: Josep Borrell | Netherlands | ||||||||
| 2005 | Jean-Claude Juncker | Luxembourg | |||||||||
| Tony Blair | United Kingdom | ||||||||||
| 2006 | Wolfgang Schüssel | Austria | |||||||||
| Matti Vanhanen | Finland | ||||||||||
| 2007 | Angela Merkel | 12: Hans-Gert Pöttering | T1 | Germany | |||||||
| José Sócrates | Portugal | ||||||||||
| 2008 | Janez Janša | Slovenia | |||||||||
| Nicolas Sarkozy | T2 | France | |||||||||
| 2009 | Mirek Topolánek | Czech Republic | |||||||||
| Jan Fischer | |||||||||||
| Fredrik Reinfeldt | 13: Jerzy Buzek | Sweden | |||||||||
| 2010 | 12: José Manuel Barroso (II) |
1. Herman Van Rompuy |
T3 | Spain | |||||||
| Belgium | |||||||||||
| 2011 | Hungary | ||||||||||
| T4 | Poland | ||||||||||
| 2012 | 14: Martin Schulz |
Denmark | |||||||||
| Cyprus | |||||||||||
| 2013 | T5 | Ireland | |||||||||
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