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Article 148 of the EEC Treaty, specifying the qualified majority voting system of the Council, was amended by Article 8 of the Accession Treaty regulating the enlargement of the community by Denmark, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. [12] Acts of the Council now required for their adoption: 41 votes (if the act was proposed by the Commission), or
The Commission is reestablished every five years. Individual members of the incoming Commission are nominated by national governments and the proposed Commission is approved jointly and severally by the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament. [17] If Parliament passes a vote of censure, the Commission must resign. [18]
The European Council must then decide unanimously [a] to proceed to Article 7.3. Article 7.3: Once the European Council has unanimously decided that the breach is still occurring, the Council then votes by qualified majority to suspend rights of the accused country, including voting rights within the Council, until all duties are fulfilled.
The next European Parliament will have more hard-right members than ever before, occupying close to a quarter of the 720 seats. The loose centrist coalition that has controlled the European Union ...
All changes to the above treaties are made by article 11-19 in part two of the accession treaty. Beside of revising voting weights and the number of member state representatives at all European institutions, the most notable change outlined how Qualified Majority Voting shall be handled in the Council of the European Union. As from 1 November ...
The president of the European Council is elected by its members through a reinforced qualified majority vote for a once-renewable term of two and a half years. [33] [34] Article 15 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) identifies his duties. It is the Heads of State or Government who vote for this office. [35]
The Treaty also provides for the Passerelle Clause which allows the European Council to unanimously decide to replace unanimous voting in the Council of Ministers with qualified majority voting in specified areas with the previous consent of the European Parliament, and move from a special legislative procedure to the ordinary legislative ...
In less than two years leading the EU’s third-largest economy, Meloni has emerged as the most powerful right-wing leader in Europe, a position emphasized in a fiery speech in ... cultural wars ...