Voting system of the European Union (EU) Council and the future of the EU (I)

Abstract

An analyze of decision-making process in EU Council, starting from its history, its voting mechanisms and its relations with the other EU institutions which often involve co-decision. There is an extremely sensitive, difficult to decipher and inconsistent balance between the general tendency to seek unanimity or to obtain a qualified majority and the individual, national or political-state group interests that constantly born temporary thematic alliances to achieve the blocking minority then negotiate a better solution within the weights established by regulations and procedures. Permanent adjustment of the objectives of each state/representative/political group/ coalition of states with similar interests, fair dialogue, thorough preliminary bureaucratic training and constant cooperation are required to foreshadow and crown a consensual agreement.

Keywords

• bureaucracy
• co-decision
• eu
• european community rules
• eu council
• european treaties
• negotiations