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More EU Decisions by qualified majority voting - but how? Legal and political options for extending qualified majority voting

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  • Mintel, Julina
  • von Ondarza, Nicolai

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In the debate on how to strengthen the European Union's (EU) capacity to act, calls for an extension of qualified majority voting (QMV) are growing louder. The Council of the EU is currently discussing using the so-called passerelle clauses in the Treaty on European Union (TEU). With these clauses, more decisions by QMV could be introduced without a major treaty change or a convention. However, abolishing national vetoes in this way would first require unanimity as well as, in some cases, additional national approval procedures. Such unanimity is currently not in sight, as resistance is prevailing in smaller and medium-sized member states, which fear that they could be regularly outvoted. What is needed, therefore, is an institutional reform package in which decisions by QMV are extended with the aim of facilitating further enlargement of the EU and are accompanied by emergency clauses to protect core national interests.

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  • Mintel, Julina & von Ondarza, Nicolai, 2022. "More EU Decisions by qualified majority voting - but how? Legal and political options for extending qualified majority voting," SWP Comments 61/2022, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), German Institute for International and Security Affairs.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:swpcom:612022
    DOI: 10.18449/2022C61
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    EU decisions; qualified majority voting (QMV); passerelle clause; Treaty on European Union (TEU); EU Commission; Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP);
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