German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul called for eliminating the European Union’s unanimous vote principle in the areas of foreign and security policy and replacing it with the majority vote principle seen in democracies.
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul called for eliminating the European Union’s unanimous vote principle in the areas of foreign and security policy and replacing it with the majority vote principle seen in democracies.
Sounds like a bad idea. Maybe something like 90% instead of 100%? That still prevents solo vetoes like hungary but doesnt make it so easy to completely destroy the EU from the inside.
As far as I understand it, an idea proposed by many is qualified majority voting where a decision can be made by 55% of member states with 65% of EU population. Didn’t read the article yet so I don’t know if there was something else mentioned.
Found this source for further information on how qualified majority voting works: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/council-eu/how-does-the-council-vote/qualified-majority/
This means complete agreement by all members of a vote. So if they werent actually talking about 100% then they just misused the word unanimous.
A quick search of the query “EU unanimous” gave me this. There are a lot of EU bodies that work in various ways so it can get confusing.
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/council-eu/how-does-the-council-vote/unanimity/
You are right. They want to get rid off unanimous voting. It would be replaced by qualified majority voting (QMV) which the other post refers to.
Oh i think i misunderstood the previous comment, thx.