EU court decides Sweden can not deport terrorist migrants

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(01-24-2018, 11:35 AM)StLucieBengal Wrote: They changed the rules to allow parliaments to ratify it as opposed to a vote of the people.   They used this and made arrangements to get it passed.    Which is why the Irish public yell at their former leader on the streets.  

All countries do not have equal say.   Germany has the most votes in the EU.

But Ireland ratified it the second time.  But a much larger margin.  So that is moot.  That's what you would call "snowflakes" who "need to admit they lost".


Looks like they have changed the voting weights a few times...with Germany on of four countries to have more votes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_the_Council_of_the_European_Union

Quote:Treaty of Lisbon[edit]


Article 16 of the "Treaty on European Union",[22] as amended by the Treaty of Lisbon, stipulates that the Council voting arrangements of the Nice Treaty applied until 31 October 2014.[a] Article 16 also states the conditions for a qualified majority, effective since 1 November 2014 (Lisbon rules):

• Majority of countries: 55% (comprising at least 16 of them), or 72% if acting on a proposal from neither the Commission nor from the High Representative, and
• Majority of population: 65%.
  

A blocking minority requires—in addition to not meeting one of the two conditions above—that at least 4 countries (or, if not all countries participate in the vote, the minimum number of countries representing more than 35% of the population of the participating countries, plus one country) vote against the proposal. Thus, there may be cases where an act is passed, even though the population condition is not met. This precludes scenarios where 3 populous countries could block a decision against the other 25 countries.



Note that the Lisbon rules eradicated the use of "artificial" voting weights. This move, first proposed in the Constitution, is based on the size of populations and, at the same time, acknowledges the smaller member states' fears of being overruled by the larger countries.

And, again, they agreed to it.  It wasn't forced on any country by a court.