DP4954 The Impact of Turkey's Membership on EU Voting

Author(s):	Richard Baldwin, Mika Widgrén
Publication Date:	March 2005
Keyword(s):	constitutional treaty, EU, Turkey, voting
JEL(s):	C71, D71, F02
Programme Areas:	International Trade and Regional Economics
Link to this Page:	cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=4954

In this paper, we evaluate the impact of Turkey's membership on EU voting. The aspects that we discuss are decision-making efficiency and the distribution of power in the EU's leading decision making body the Council of Ministers. We compare two alternative Council voting rules: those accepted in the Treaty of Nice and implemented by the Accession Treaty of ten 2004 entrants and the rules that are laid down in the Constitutional Treaty.