Germany and UK are main adversaries on EU laws, survey says

VoteWatch Europe is an independent organisation set up to promote better debates and greater transparency in EU decision-making, by providing easy access to, and analysis of, the votes and other activities of the European Parliament (EP) and the EU Council of Ministers (Council). VoteWatch uses the EU Institutions' own attendance, voting and activity data - available through their websites - to give a full overview of MEP and Member State activities.

Since 2009 VoteWatch Europe has reported every six months on voting trends in the European Parliament. In 2012 for the first time VoteWatch Europe extends coverage to look at voting trends in the Council of the European Union ('the Council of Ministers' or 'the Council').

In the most comprehensive project of its kind to date, VoteWatch has collected data on how government representatives of the 27 Member
 States voted in the Council from July 2009 to the present. For the first time ever, European citizens and others interested in EU decision-making will now be able to scrutinise the voting records of both branches of the EU legislature, whose decisions have a direct impact on over 500 
million citizens.

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VoteWatch Europe: News, 9.7.12: Agreeing to Disagree: The voting records of EU Member States in the Council since 2009. VoteWatch Europe 2012 Annual report. http://www.votewatch.eu/en/news.html#2387

VoteWatch Europe: Annual Report 2012. Agreeing to disagree. The voting records of EU Member States in the Council since 2009 http://www.votewatch.eu/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/votewatch-annual-report-july-2012-final-7-july.pdf

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