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When studying the phenomenon of political leadership in the European Union, one must take into account both the treaty solutions and political praxis. The subsequent analysis may lead to some interesting conclusions. One such conclusion illuminates the fact that the category of political leadership in the EU differs from the understanding of this phenomenon at the state level. In the EU, there are several operators exercising political leadership. Both at the intergovernmental level and the supranational cooperative level. The EU is an example of an organization that employs a distributed model of political leadership as a result of treaty solutions which in turn confirms the praxis.