Spain and Poland stood alone today (4 October) in their defence of the complicated but, for them, beneficial voting weights of the Nice Treaty at the opening of talks on a new draft treaty.
Both Madrid and Warsaw made it clear that they are going to continue the fight for the 27 votes in the EU Council as set in the Nice Treaty - this number of votes means they play in the same arena as the large member states such as Germany and France.
The two argue that the European Convention,...
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