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Sistemul de vot al Consiliului Uniunii Europene și viitorul UE (I)
Voting system of the European Union (EU) Council and the future of the EU (I)

Author(s): Gabriel Catalan
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: Fundaţia »Societatea Civilă« (FSC)
Keywords: bureaucracy, co-decision;EU;European Community rules;EU Council;European treaties;negotiations;

Summary/Abstract: An analyze of decision-making process in EU Council, starting from its history, its voting mechanisms and its relations with the other EU institutions which often involve co-decision.There is an extremely sensitive, difficult to decipher and inconsistent balance between the general tendency to seek unanimity or to obtain a qualified majority and the individual, national or political-state group interests that constantly born temporary thematic alliances to achieve the blocking minority then negotiate a better solution within the weights established by regulations and procedures.Permanent adjustment of the objectives of each state/representative/political group/ coalition of states with similar interests, fair dialogue, thorough preliminary bureaucratic training and constant cooperation are required to foreshadow and crown a consensual agreement.

  • Issue Year: XXVIII/2020
  • Issue No: 205-206
  • Page Range: 66-79
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Romanian