There are four main areas that need to be changed. Some are more difficult to resolve than others, but none can be considered in isolation. Summits involve a series of trade-offs and every leader will have to give ground. Changing the voting in the Council of Ministers. Most of the important decisions in the EU are taken in the Council of Ministers, the EU s Cabinet.
Votes are allocated according to population, so Luxembourg, a small country, has two votes.
It s a Pandora s box. No head of state wants to fly back from this conference to explain why their country has fallen down the European league table. Curbing the national veto is a big issue. At Nice, the member states will have to decide to transfer more areas of policy from the national veto system to the QMV system. France, which has the presidency of the EU, has identified 52 areas that it wants to transfer to the QMV system.