Sentence examples for decided by unanimity from inspiring English sources
Which policy issues should be decided by unanimity and which by majority vote?
It cannot do much about those that already exist, because tax rules are decided by unanimity among all 27 member countries.
The EU budget will still have to be decided by unanimity, which should be fun in 2006.What about this single legal personality business?Both federalists and Eurosceptics attach a lot of significance to this.
In this version of events, the British prime minister thought the mood of the room was running towards Protocol 12, and because Protocol 12 is decided by unanimity, he thought he had the whip hand.Instead, my source tells me, the room turned on Mr Cameron.
Their argument is that they are bailing out a bust Irish government which is holding taxes artificially low (never mind that Ireland's low corporate-tax rate yields proportionally bigger revenues than in most other countries).Fortunately tax matters are decided by unanimity in the EU.
According to the Belgian presidency and the European Commission, the matter could have been decided by majority vote, instead of unanimity, under the rules of the new Lisbon treaty.
In essence, the British did not ask for an "emergency brake" clause or opt-out for financial regulation.What they asked for was a protocol imposing decision-making by unanimity on a number of areas of regulation currently decided by majority voting.
"It was decided by force.
It was decided by energy.
