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Decision‐making after the EU Intergovernmental Conference
Author(s) -
Peters Torsten
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
european law journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.351
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1468-0386
pISSN - 1351-5993
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0386.1996.tb00028.x
Subject(s) - political science , policy making , public administration , council of ministers , point (geometry) , current (fluid) , management science , operations research , law and economics , economics , european union , economic policy , engineering , mathematics , electrical engineering , geometry
One central point of debate at the current EU Intergovernmental Conference will be the reform of EU decision‐making. This article begins by briefly summarising the current decision‐making system in the EU. It then approaches in a quantitative manner how a lowering of the qualified majority threshold in the Council of Ministers would increase EU decision‐making capacity. Finally, it proposes new decision‐making procedures which might be particularly well‐suited to overcoming EU indecision.