 States to,
among others, negotiate EU legislation with the European Parliament as
part of the ordinary legislative procedure (OLP).</p>
<p>Under the OLP, which is nowadays the most common type of law-making
procedure, the Council should make decisions by qualified majority. In
practice, it often decides by consensus, as Member States tend to avoid
open disagreements. Still, enough votes are taken to give us some
insight into the variation in Member State governments’ behaviour. We
could access these thro