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Voting procedure of the ministerial organ of the proposed European Economic Association

Motion for a recommendation | Doc. 906 | 16 October 1958

Signatories:
Mr Ronald RUSSELL, United Kingdom
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The Assembly,

Considering that on the basis of one vote for each of the seventeen Members of O.E.E.C. it would be possible for five members representing a total population of approximately 206 million people to be outvoted by a two-thirds majority of twelve members representing only 77 million people,

Recommends that a voting formula be devised fixing the number of votes' held by each Member in proportion to the population and gross national income of each Member.