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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8792

24 September 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/council/votes
Council to explain figures for qualified majority voting as laid down in Treaty of Nice

Brussels, 23/09/2004 (Agence Europe) - With the entry into force of the Treaty of Nice, the new qualified majority using the 62% criteria of the population may require a counting of votes in system where the population is constantly changing. It is therefore necessary to establish the rules that could also serve as a test for the application of the different and highly complex majorities already contained in the constitutional treaty. Permanent representatives from Member States tackled the...

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