minority threshold - situation whereby a minority has an effective veto because a certain majority is required to effect a change and the minority holds enough votes to prevent this majority being obtained
Insofar as all the candidate countries listed in the Declaration on the enlargement of the European Union have not yet acceded to the Union when the new vote weightings take effect (1 January 2005), the threshold for a qualified majority will move, according to the pace of accessions, from a percentage below the current one to a maximum of 73,4 %. When all the candidate countries mentioned above have acceded, the blocking minority, in a Union of 27, will be raised to 91 votes, and the qualified majority threshold resulting from the table given in the Declaration on enlargement of the European
Union will be automatically adjusted accordingly.
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In the context of weighted majority voting in the Council; to rise from 23 votes out of 76 to 27 votes out of 90.
