Sentence examples for qualified majority of from inspiring English sources

Steps and sanctions proposed or recommended by the European commission should be adopted unless a qualified majority of the euro area member states decides otherwise".

Crucially, the pact imposes fines on governments in breach of its strictures automatically, unless a qualified majority of all the others votes against doing so.

Under the euro zone's "fiscal compact", countries that break the deficit rules will face punishment, unless a qualified majority of other member countries votes to let them off.

The European proposal would need the backing of a so-called qualified majority of member states to become law, a system that assigns greater voting weight to larger countries like Germany, which is said to be reluctant to back the measure.

Last November, to the great irritation of smaller countries, the French and Germans persuaded a qualified majority of their fellow governments in the Council of Ministers to reject the commission's proposal to threaten sanctions against the pair, and instead to put the entire pact into abeyance.

But in glyphosate's case, the commission has made it clear that it would not proceed without a "solid qualified majority of Member States," the spokesperson says.

It is encouraging that cooperation within Europol can be made more efficient through its being possible to make decisions by means of qualified majority voting and codecision on the part of the European Parliament.

Sources in Brussels say Cameron is playing a "dangerous game" because financial service regulations are decided by the system of qualified majority voting in which Britain does not have a veto.

A particular worry is that the present system of qualified majority voting (QMV) in the Council of Ministers will become a formula for deadlock once membership expands, as intended, from 15 to 20 and later to 27.

"The consequences of a qualified majority vote (QMV) would be significant," said Philippe Lamberts, co-leader of the Greens in the European parliament.

But ever-inventive Brussels is coming up with a solution of sorts through the emergence of "Euro-speak"—a form of dead, bureaucratic English.The joy of phrases like "qualified majority voting", "the community method" and "the commission's sole right of initiative" is that they are completely meaningless to all ordinary Europeans whether in translation or in the original.