Je rozhodovací procedura v Radě Evropské unie spravedlivá?
Is the EU Council Decision-Making Rule Equitable?

Summary/Abstract: A priori voting power analysis can provide an effective tool for the assessment of decision-making procedures, which is particularly necessary for procedures using weighted voting. The Council of the EU is such a case, and the decision-making rule for this central decision-making body has been a long-lasting problem for the European Union. This article gives a short introduction to the broader context of weighted voting and to the measurement of voting power, demonstrating the effects of various forms of weighted-vote decision-making on the influence (voting power) of individual actors. The article provides a comparison of the effects of decision-making procedures for the Council on the voting power of member states, mainly focusing on the institutional design provided by the Constitutional Treaty. It concludes that the Treaty would – if implemented – provide a notably worse solution than the current procedure, particularly from the perspective of equal representation of EU citizens.

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