Talk:Voting in the Council of the European Union

message: I don't think it makes sense to distinguish conditions to pass a vote and conditions to block a vote.  The correct way to state the condition to pass a vote according to the Reform treaty is:
* the proposal must be backed by at least 55% (that is 15) of member states (or 72%, that is 20, if not acting on a proposal by the Commission), and
* the countries supporting the proposal represent at least 65% of the total EU population, or
* the proposal is supported by all countries except at most three (in other words, when this applies, the condition on the population is not required — the first condition is automatically satisfied, of course).
The way the article is currently worded makes you think there is a situation when the vote is not passed but not blocked either, which is absurd.  Unless someone objects, I will rephrase this (and merge the section "Conditions to block a vote" in the section "Conditions to pass a vote"). --Gro-Tsen 11:59, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Go ahead! --Roentgenium111 (talk) 20:35, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

text: When I see "blocking a vote", I take that to mean the use of dilatory tactics or other parliamentary procedure to keep a proposal from being brought to a vote, as a separate question from what the threshold for passage is if the proposal is voted on. --Dan Wylie-Sears 2 (talk) 17:46, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Passing'' a vote versus ''blocking'' a vote 

message: Would it be worth mentioning Blocking Minority as a term? It is a very widespread and important concept? Ajem (talk) 14:01, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population Requirement 

message: Qualified majority voting redirects here, but has a link in this article.  There's another link in this article,  qualified majority voting that redirects to supermajority.  It's not clear to me if there's a distinction that should be noted in the supermajority article, or what. --Dan Wylie-Sears 2 (talk) 17:56, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to a redirect back to this article 

message: I thought only European Commission has the right of initiative, so how can be threshold be raised to 72% if
any initiative does not come from EC ?
Siyac 18:12, 08 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question 

message: Does this article need to be updated to reflect Croatia, which is mentioned in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_state_of_the_European_Union, and http://europa.eu/about-eu/countries/member-countries/index_en.htm but not here?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.0.51.128 (talk) 17:53, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another question 

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