Talk:Voting in the Council of the European Union

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[edit] Passing a vote versus blocking a vote

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)