ABSTRACT
In general, the European integration process is moving towards the direction of interstate or intergovernmental cooperation with the Council of (national) Ministers as the principal and ultimate decision-making body. This trend continued with the Single European Act, following which the Council’s voting procedure, originally based exclusively on unanimity, adopted majority voting for certain areas. The power, more specifically the negative powers, of the European Parliament increased in line with this. This body acquired the right to block legislation by the Council but fell short of becoming a parliament in the true sense, being unable to initiate legislation or pass laws in its own right.
