Kauppi, Heikki; Widgrén, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008
The member states have self-interested objectives and they use their voting power in the Council of Ministers (CM) to … maximize their shares from the EU budget, whereas European Parliament (EP) uses its power to support benevolent objectives and … equality between member states. Given the current decision procedures of the EU, EP has effective power on non …