Brussels, 31/10/2014 (Agence Europe) - New rules will apply from 1 November 2014 for calculating qualified majority voting at the European Summit and the EU Council of Ministers under the Lisbon Treaty that was approved at the Lisbon Summit on 19 October 2007 (see EUROPE 9527).
As from 1 November 2014, a system of double majority of member states and of population will replace the current rules based on a system of weighted votes attributed to each member state, applied since 1957.
The new...