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Pretty much all of the important stuff is still covered (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_the_Council_of_the_European_Union#Unanimity https://en.wikipedi
by louisswiss 8y ago
Pretty much all of the important stuff is still covered (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_the_Council_of_the_European_Union#Unanimity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_the_Council_of_the_E...)
To argue otherwise would be akin to arguing that the UK parliament isn't sovereign because local councils can make some local decisions independently.
EDIT (To reply to the comment below):
If you read the information in the link posted, it's obvious that the important decisions still require unanimity, even if minor decisions (yes, some of them in important fields) now only require QMV.
FWIW, I'm a fan of QMV.
- blibble 8y agothat very much depends on your definition of "important" personally I would call employment, business, immigration, social security, criminal law, and half a dozen things listed there as important, but there you go
- blibble 8y agowhat's wrong with the reply button? > If you read the information in the link posted, it's obvious that the important decisions still require unanimity, even if minor decisions (yes, some of them in important fields) now only require QMV. not true (again)... might be true most of the time, but not always (which is the entire problem) see the fuss over the past two years where eastern european countries were forced over their explicit objections to accept migrant quotas using QMV