Following the continental borders, Europe consists of 50 independent countries. The German chancellor Angela Merkel is not only one of the few women in power in Europe. She is also the longest serving state leader in Europe and has been in her position since 2005.
At the age of 29 years, Alessandro Cardelli, head of state of San Marino is the youngest state leader in Europe and the world, as of November 2020.
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List of European Presidents 2021
Below you can find the list of all presidents or heads of state in Europe as of November 2020.
| Country | Head of State (November 2020) |
|---|---|
| Albania | Edi Rama |
| Andorra | Xavier Espot Zamora |
| Armenia | Nikol Pashinyan |
| Austria | Sebastian Kurz |
| Azerbaijan | Ilham Aliyev |
| Belarus | Alexander Lukashenko |
| Belgium | Alexander De Croo |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Valentin Inzko |
| Bulgaria | Boyko Borisov |
| Croatia | Andrej Plenković |
| Cyprus | Nicos Anastasiades |
| Czechia | Andrej Babiš |
| Denmark | Mette Frederiksen |
| Estonia | Jüri Ratas |
| Finland | Sanna Marin |
| France | Emmanuel Macron |
| Georgia | Giorgi Gakharia |
| Germany | Angela Merkel |
| Greece | Kyriakos Mitsotakis |
| Hungary | Viktor Orbán |
| Iceland | Katrín Jakobsdóttir |
| Ireland | Micheál Martin |
| Italy | Giuseppe Conte |
| Kosovo | Hashim Thaçi |
| Latvia | Krišjānis Kariņš |
| Liechtenstein | Hereditary Prince Alois |
| Lithuania | Gitanas Nausėda |
| Luxembourg | Xavier Bettel |
| Malta | Robert Abela |
| Moldova | Ion Chicu |
| Monaco | Albert II |
| Montenegro | Duško Marković |
| Netherlands | Mark Rutte |
| North Macedonia | Zoran Zaev |
| Norway | Erna Solberg |
| Poland | Andrzej Duda |
| Portugal | António Costa |
| Romania | Klaus Iohannis |
| Russia | Vladimir Putin |
| San Marino | Alessandro Cardelli |
| Serbia | Ana Brnabić |
| Slovakia | Igor Matovič |
| Slovenia | Janez Janša |
| Spain | Pedro Sánchez |
| Sweden | Stefan Löfven |
| Switzerland | Simonetta Sommaruga |
| Turkey | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
| Ukraine | Volodymyr Zelensky |
| United Kingdom | Boris Johnson |
| Vatican City | Pope Francis |
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