The Impact of Brexit and the New Legal Framework for European Statistics in Demography on the Voting Power of Poland in the Council of the European Union
The Impact of Brexit and the New Legal Framework for European Statistics in Demography on the Voting Power of Poland in the Council of the European Union

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the potential impact of Brexit and the new legal framework for European statistics in demography on the formal voting power of Poland in the Council of the European Union, in the case of adopting decisions by the qualified majority of votes. The leading hypothesis of the paper assumes that the fact of leaving the European Union by Great Britain and the new method of determining the population of EU Member States for the purposes of making decisions in the Council of the European Union leads to another transfer of formal voting power to the benefit of countries with the largest populations, as well as reduces the ability of Poland to build strictly minimally blocking coalitions, in particular in opposition to the coalition being formed by France and Germany or the so-called “Trio of Ventotene”.

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