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The Lisbon Treaty specifies in Article 16 [6] that the Council shall act by a qualified majority voting (QMV) [7] in areas of competence [8] with certain exceptions. Qualified majority voting now extends to policy areas that required unanimity according to the Nice Treaty. The new areas of QMV are: [9]
The 2019 election saw an increase in the turnout, when 50.7% of eligible voters had cast a vote compared with 42.5% of the 2014 election. This was the first time that turnout had increased since the first European Parliament election in 1979 . [ 9 ]
A compromise between all the member states was reached on the issue of qualified majority voting (QMV) in the Luxembourg Compromise. The Commission planned to extend the Community's power by expanding the number of issues subject to QMV. Charles de Gaulle was against the expansion of the Community's powers.
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 ...
While the centre, liberal and Socialist parties were set to retain a majority in the 720-seat parliament, the vote dealt a domestic blow to the leaders of both France and Germany, raising ...
Even an average miss in the key battlegrounds could turn the election into a blowout. Local residents line up to enter a polling site on the first day of early in-person voting in Asheville, North ...
Voting in the Council (of relevant Ministers) is usually by qualified majority voting, and sometimes unanimity is required. This means that, for the vast majority of EU legislation, the corresponding national government has usually voted in favour in the Council.
More day-to-day decisions in the Council of Ministers would be to be taken by qualified majority voting, requiring a 55% majority of members of the Council representing a 65% majority of citizens. (The 55% is raised to 72% when the Council acts on its own initiative rather than on a legislative proposal from the Commission or the Union Minister ...