31 maio 2004

ECOPOL

European voting rules flawed: Planned EU constitution could debase democracy.
The European Union is in danger of adopting unfair voting procedures, according to Polish scientists.
Physicists tackle EU constitution: Two scientists from Poland claim to have found a solution to the problem of voting in the newly enlarged European Union. The current voting system, which is based on guidelines set by the Treaty of Nice, and the new system proposed in the draft EU Constitution both lead to inequalities between the different member states. The new system, proposed by Karol ?yczkowski and Wojciech Slomczy?ski of Jagiellonian University in Kraków, is based on a square-root formula and would ensure that all European citizens had equal voting powers