are related to distribution of voting power in the EU Council of Ministers as reflecting the influence of member states … political parties, is there a difference between a priori voting power of national groups in the case of nationalʺ coordination … methodology is used to evaluate voting power of national party groups in the cases of partisan and national coordination of voting …

by Penrose-Banzhaf index of voting power. In this paper we attempt to clarify this concept. -- Council of Ministers … ; indirect voting power ; Penrose-Banzhaf power index ; Shapley-Shubik power index ; square root rule ; simple voting game … square roots of population. Such a distribution should guarantee the same indirect voting power to each EU citizen, measured …