The Impact of Turkey's Membership on EU Voting

16 Pages Posted: 27 Jul 2005

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Richard E. Baldwin

University of Geneva - Graduate Institute of International Studies (HEI); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Mika Widgren

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

Date Written: March 2005

Abstract

In this paper, we evaluate the impact of Turkey's membership on EU voting. The aspects that we discuss are decision-making efficiency and the distribution of power in the EU's leading decision-making body, the Council of Ministers. We compare two alternative Council voting rules: those accepted in the Treaty of Nice and implemented by the Accession Treaty of ten 2004 entrants and the rules that are laid down in the Constitutional Treaty.

Keywords: EU, Turkey, voting, constitutional treaty

JEL Classification: C71, D71, F02

Suggested Citation

Baldwin, Richard E. and Widgren, Mika T., The Impact of Turkey's Membership on EU Voting (March 2005). CEPR Discussion Paper No. 4954, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=770204

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Mika T. Widgren

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