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Could qualified majority voting - ie, ending any country having a unilateral blocking vote - be the missing piece of the jigsaw? (Photo: Wikimedia)

Now's the time to give QMV a chance in EU foreign policy

The loudest applause from MEPs during Ursula von der Leyen's one hour-long plus speech State of the Union speech came as a response to her call for EU member states to move to Qualified Majority Voting (QMV) in foreign policy, at least on human rights and sanctions implementation.

QMV is already the most widely used voting method in the EU Council, which decides on foreign policy.

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Niklas Nováky is a research officer at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, the official think-tank of the European People's Party.

Could qualified majority voting - ie, ending any country having a unilateral blocking vote - be the missing piece of the jigsaw? (Photo: Wikimedia)

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Niklas Nováky is a research officer at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, the official think-tank of the European People's Party.

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