Genişlemelerle Birlikte Avrupa Birliği Bakanlar Konseyi’nde Oylama Gücü Dağılımı(Voting Power Distribution With The Enlargements In The Council of The European Union)

• Main Authors: Hatice Burcu ESKİCİ, Özgür YENİAY
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: German; English; French; Turkish
• Published: Celal Bayar University 2013
• Subjects: European Union; Treaty of Lisbon; Banzhaf power index; Management. Industrial management; HD28-70; Economics as a science; HB71-74; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/e17529024a7f4415ba4b3f01226c88e8

Nowadays, enlargement is one of the most important issue for European Union. The situation that makes this issue important is the influence of membership of the candidate states on the voting power distribution. With the enlargements, European Union decision-making processes were regulated several times. The last regulation to the European Union voting system was brought by the Treaty of Lisbon. In this study, voting power distribution in Council of the European Union is evaluated for candidate states and member states considering the acts adopted by the Treaty of Lisbon and determined as candidate states determined as Turkey, Croatia, Iceland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. In the analysis, member states are grouped the according to the enlargement of the EU and the effect of the states that take part in these groups on the decision and changes of voting power are calculated using Banzhaf power index for power measurement.