Originally Posted by
Realist
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Greece wouldn't have a choice Flicker and that at its very heart is why the EU is such a totalitarian waste of space.
A Qualifying Majority is needed to get anything through the EU. Member states are still free to use the older system in which 352 votes are distributed as follows:
•France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom: 29 votes each
•Spain, Poland: 27 votes each
•Romania: 14 votes
•Netherlands: 13 votes
•Belgium, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Portugal: 12 votes each
•Austria, Bulgaria, Sweden: 10 votes each
•Croatia, Denmark, Ireland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Finland: 7 votes each
•Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Luxembourg, Slovenia: 4 votes each
•Malta: 3 votes
A qualified majority is reached in the Council if the following conditions are met:
•a majority of member states - 15 member states - vote in favour
•a minimum of 260 votes out of the total 352 votes are cast in favour
So it can be seen that poor old Greece has just 12 votes in a total of 352. Thus it's "Voice" is miniscule. to the extent that it has no sway whatsover. Greece would need to find 14 other states willing to keep Turkey out or find 248 votes from other countries in their favour.
If lots of other members voted for Turkey to join the EU then it's tough titty for Greece and any other state who doesn't want that. What then happens is all the countries go bartering with each other. Maybe whilst the UK is still in, it could say that it will vote in favour of Turkey joining unless other member states support BRExit in some way?
Regardless, the entire system is a pile of utter BS. Having to get so many other countries to support any vote is farcical in the extreme and just makes a mockery of the whole process. A process which at no point serves the needs of any individual nation.
This is a key reason the UK needs to , and IS, pulling out of the EU.