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by johannes1234321 2646 days ago
Mind that this is just a step in the legislative process not the final thing. Next step is the EU Council where relevant ministers of the individual member states have to find an agreement. Some governments aren't that enthusiastic ..
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Do all of them actually have to agree or just some majority?
This is always so complicated and I do not know. Sometimes they need a simple majority representing so and so many citizens and so and so many different countries (i.e. so that big countries [De+Fr+UK] can't overrule small ones and the small ones can't overrule big ones) some hings have to be unanimous, sometimes a simple majority is enough ...