The Impact of Council's Internal Decision-Making Rules on the Future EU

Widgren, Mika

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The Impact of Council's Internal Decision-Making Rules on the Future EU

Mika Widgren

Turku School of Economics - Department of Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research)

January 2008

CESifo Working Paper No. 2195

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This paper deals with the voting rules in the EU Council. Both internal and external impact of the voting rules are evaluated. Internal impact affects the distribution of power among the member states and external impact affects power relations between the main decision-making bodies in the EU. One of the main lessons of the analysis is clearly to explain why the design of Council voting rules has required so much bargaining and cumbersome marathon negotiations.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 28

Keywords: European integration, Council of Ministers, power

JEL Classification: C70, D71, H77

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Date posted: January 23, 2008

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Widgren, Mika T., The Impact of Council's Internal Decision-Making Rules on the Future EU (January 2008). CESifo Working Paper No. 2195. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1086577

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Mika T. Widgren (Contact Author) Turku School of Economics - Department of Economics ( email ) FIN-20500 Turku Finland
Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) 77 Bastwick Street London, EC1V 3PZ United Kingdom
CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research) Poschinger Str. 5 Munich, DE-81679 Germany

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The Impact of Council's Internal Decision-Making Rules on the Future EU

Mika Widgren

Date posted: January 23, 2008

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Mika T. Widgren (Contact Author)