Tag: QMV
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Qualified Majority Voting in EU Foreign Policy: A Cost of Non-Europe Report
The following study deals with qualified majority voting (QMV) and the common foreign and security policy (CFSP) of the European Union (EU). As the EU develops into a geopolitical actor, it is necessary to analyse its existing and future foreign policy decision-making procedures. However, a series of high-profile instances have…
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Votes, Vetoes, Values: Foreign Interference, QMV and EU Foreign Policy in a Competitive Age
Abstract In early May 2023, a group of nine European Union countries called for reform of the way the Union takes decisions in its foreign and security policy. Traditionally a field where consensus and unanimity are the norm, pleas in favour of Qualified Majority Voting – where a single state…