28/09/2004 (Agence Europe) - At an informal discussion on the calculation of qualified majority voting as laid down in the Treaty of Nice, which will enter into force on 1 November (criterion of 62% of the population: see EUROPE of 24 September, p.7), Italy raised the issue of calculating this percentage not on the basis of the number or residents, but on the citizenship criterion. However, this would reduce the German population by over 7 million people, said the Financial Times, which...