Compromise of Ioannina
The compromised of Ioannina is an institutional practice of the European Union, which draws its name from an informal meeting of the Foreign Ministers, the March 29th 1994 with Ioannina in Greece. This meeting made it possible to regulate the difficulties raised by nearest adhesion novel members (the Union was to then pass to 16 members, but the Norway thereafter refused to adhere)
This meeting succeeded, inter alia, in a decision of the Conseil concerning the question of the vote in the majority qualified in a widened Union with fifteen Member States. Thereafter, this decision was modified to take account of the refusal of the accession of Norway.
The compromise provided that so members of the Council representing enters 23 (old threshold of the minority of blocking) and 26 votes (new threshold of the minority of blocking) indicated their intention to be opposed to the making of a decision by the Council in the majority qualified, the Council would do all that is in its capacity to succeed, “within a reasonable delay”, with a satisfactory solution which can be adopted by at least 68 votes out of 87.
The Traité of Nice placed temporarily fine at the disposals of the Compromise of Ioannina but those are indirectly evoked again by the modifying Traité of 2007, for the transitional period of 2014 to 2017.
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