It was suggesting a unanimous vote on certain financial-services issues, rather than the qualified majority vote.
In theory, lots of EU financial regulations could be decided by qualified majority vote.
Under the treaty, applicants will be chosen next spring at a summit, by qualified majority vote of all existing members of the Union.
But having failed to get anywhere with its proposal for voting weights based on the square root of a country's population, Poland is now talking about ways of making it more difficult for large countries to block a qualified majority vote.
Only 5% of Americans admit that they would not vote for an otherwise qualified black presidential candidate, but 53% say they would shun an atheist.
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Mr. Carney said there will be a cloture vote on the nomination of Caitlin Halligan tomorrow, 726 days after her nomination, and strongly urged the Senate to support an up-or-down vote for this well-qualified nominee.
"Texas' senators said he was not qualified, because to them he was not a guaranteed ideological vote, " Clinton said.
It is disappointing that a cloture vote is even necessary for someone as clearly well-qualified as Ms. Halligan, who has bipartisan support from lawyers and law enforcement.
If it were not to invite an even bigger raspberry, a new vote would have to be on a text that had been revised or qualified in some way.
Friday's vote is the first time a commission proposal on GM crops has been defeated through qualified majority voting among ministers.
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