Weighting votes in the Council: towards a ‘Warsaw compromise’?

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Series Details 20 June 2007
Publication Date 2007
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One of the key obstacles to a swift agreement on how to reform the EU institutions is the belated insistence of Poland to reopen the issue of voting weights in the Council. The system unanimously agreed in the Constitutional Treaty (CT) foresaw a double majority system under which a (qualified) majority requires two elements: at least 55% of the member states accounting for at least 65% of the EU’s population.

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