EU Commission picks up old idea of Germany, France, Slovenia and EP for partial use of majority voting during entry talks

Brussels, 06 October 2026, dtt-net.com – The European Commission (EC) today presented to the public a compilation of old ideas circulating for quite some time within member states, and also the European Parliament, including the use of qualitied majority voting (QMV) in opening and closing negotiating chapters with candidate countries, but still for member states maintaining the veto powers in opening and closing accessions talks.