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German calculator to ease EU voting maths

by Mark Beunderman, Brussels,

EU diplomats who are bad at algebra are now being given a helping hand by the German EU presidency, which has invented an online calculator for quickly seeing if EU proposals can count on majority support from member states.

The German ministry of Economics last week launched an easy-to-use website reducing the cumbersome voting formulas used in the EU council - the member states' decisio...

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