EU ministers temper Framework reforms

Voting power in the EU council of ministers and fair decision making in distributive politics

We analyze and evaluate the di¤erent decision rules describing the Council of Ministers of the EU starting from 1958 up to now. Most of the existing studies use the Banzhaf index (for binary voting) or the Shapley-Shubik index (for distributive politics). We argue in favor of the nucleolus as a power measure in distributive situations and an alternative to the Shapley-Shubik index. We then calc...

Strategic versus non-strategic voting power in the EU Council of Ministers: the consultation procedure

This paper evaluates the distribution of power within the Council of the European Union from the a priori perspective of constitutional design using two distinct approaches: (1) applying traditional voting power indices; (2) carrying out strategic equilibrium analysis of the EU’s consultation procedure. It clarifies why both approaches lead to different power indications, and investigates the d...

European Conference of Ministers of Transport Council of Ministers

European Conference of Ministers of Transport Council of Ministers

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European Conference of Ministers of Transport Council of Ministers