Analysis of QM rule adopted by the EU Inter-Governmental Conference Brussels, 18 June 2004

Felsenthal, Dan S.; and Machover, Moshé (2004) Analysis of QM rule adopted by the EU Inter-Governmental Conference Brussels, 18 June 2004 Technical Report. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

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We analyse and evaluate the qualified majority (QM) decision rule for the Council of Ministers of the EU adopted at the EU Inter-Governmental Conference, Brussels, 18 June 2004 [1]. We compare this rule with the QM rule prescribed in the Treaty of Nice, and the rule included in the original draft Constitution proposed by the European Convention in July 2003. We use a method similar to the one we used in [3] and [4].