Council Voting Calculator for Android

11 things about Council Voting Calculator

1. Since November 2014, qualified majority voting at the Council needs at least 55% of the member states comprising 65% of the population to be in agreement.

2. Most often, the Council of the EU votes by qualified majority but it actually uses four different sets of voting rules to adopt decisions.

3. In your voting simulation, you can exclude EU member states from taking part in the vote, if required by the rules.

4. The voting calculator makes it easy to check if a qualified majority has been reached, anytime, anywhere.

5. By default, for each simulation all EU member states are marked as voting yes, so you only need to change the vote of those voting against or abstaining.

6. It's always been difficult to check whether the Council of the European Union has reached the qualified majority it needs to adopt an act.

7. Answering this question has just been made easy thanks to the Council's voting calculator app.

8. Usually, all EU member states take part in a vote, however, the EU treaties foresee areas for closer cooperation and offer opt-outs in certain policies.

9. The voting calculator app is a must-have for anyone following meetings of the Council of the EU, its working parties or Coreper.

10. In just a few clicks you can check the final result of a Council vote.

11. From a drop-down menu, you can choose the voting rule to run your simulation.