The European Commission announced on Wednesday 20 February that it would now use the number of seats allocated to a Member State in the European Parliament, and no longer the number of votes of a Member State in the Council of the EU, as a parameter to assess a State's institutional weight in calculating the amounts of lump sums and daily penalty payments it proposes to the EU Court of Justice to impose on a State that has infringed EU law.
To calculate the amount of these lump sums and...