EU Council Decision-Making: a Discussion on the Late Weighted Votes Criterion
In the wider extended academic concern regarding the decision-making system that the EU is and should be using, a voting frame rediscussed in the Brexit context and whose modification proposals are usually widely debated, this paper focuses on a peculiar aspect of the intra-institutional decisio...
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| description | In the wider extended academic concern regarding the decision-making system
that the EU is and should be using, a voting frame rediscussed in the Brexit context and whose
modification proposals are usually widely debated, this paper focuses on a peculiar aspect of the
intra-institutional decision-making process, i.e. on what was known as the weighted votes
component of the qualified majority voting used in the EU Council. What was the logic of
establishing this system, how did it develop and why the member states decided to abandon it?
These are the main questions to whom the article will answer, with the aim to indicate that the
current modified Lisbon system, despite its alleged improvements in terms of legitimacy,
transparency and adaptability to enlargement waves, offered a new QMV definition that is still
locked in the blocking minorities safety nets of the EU power politics game. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4f36129242cc4dc49b04da7379feb54d2023-03-23T12:39:56ZengEditura Universitatii din OradeaAnalele Universităţii din Oradea. Relaţii Internaţionale şi Studii Europene2067-12532067-36472021-12-01XIII261273https://doi.org/10.58603/RLFJ2197EU Council Decision-Making: a Discussion on the Late Weighted Votes CriterionOana-Andreea ION0SNSPA, Bucharest In the wider extended academic concern regarding the decision-making system that the EU is and should be using, a voting frame rediscussed in the Brexit context and whose modification proposals are usually widely debated, this paper focuses on a peculiar aspect of the intra-institutional decision-making process, i.e. on what was known as the weighted votes component of the qualified majority voting used in the EU Council. What was the logic of establishing this system, how did it develop and why the member states decided to abandon it? These are the main questions to whom the article will answer, with the aim to indicate that the current modified Lisbon system, despite its alleged improvements in terms of legitimacy, transparency and adaptability to enlargement waves, offered a new QMV definition that is still locked in the blocking minorities safety nets of the EU power politics game. https://www.analerise.igri.ro/resurse/reviste/2021/Oana-Andreea%20ION.pdfcouncil of the european unioneuropean unionqualified majority votingweighted votes |
| spellingShingle | Oana-Andreea ION EU Council Decision-Making: a Discussion on the Late Weighted Votes Criterion Analele Universităţii din Oradea. Relaţii Internaţionale şi Studii Europene council of the european union european union qualified majority voting weighted votes |
| title | EU Council Decision-Making: a Discussion on the Late Weighted Votes Criterion |
| title_full | EU Council Decision-Making: a Discussion on the Late Weighted Votes Criterion |
| title_fullStr | EU Council Decision-Making: a Discussion on the Late Weighted Votes Criterion |
| title_full_unstemmed | EU Council Decision-Making: a Discussion on the Late Weighted Votes Criterion |
| title_short | EU Council Decision-Making: a Discussion on the Late Weighted Votes Criterion |
| title_sort | eu council decision making a discussion on the late weighted votes criterion |
| topic | council of the european union european union qualified majority voting weighted votes |
| url | https://www.analerise.igri.ro/resurse/reviste/2021/Oana-Andreea%20ION.pdf |
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