We analyze and evaluate the different decision rules describing the Council of Ministers of the EU starting from 1958 … distributive politics). We argue in favor of the nucleolus as a power measure in distributive situations and an alternative to the … measures. In the second part, we analyze the power of the European citizens as measured by the nucleolus under the egalitarian …

policymaking process of the European Union. Using simple game theory, the paper analyzes the working properties of the different … delegates some of its policymaking power to the Commission as part of Union legislation. We show how the balance of power is …