Spain and the Intergovernmental Conference: the arguments in favour of retaining Nice

As the EU has grown and new States have joined - for the most part small and medium-sized countries in terms of population - the original weighting of votes has had to be revisited, on account of the fact that the increase in the number of small States, when combined with the aforementioned ‘reward’, has resulted in a progressively unbalanced system, whereby a significant number of States representing a small percentage of the EU’s population held a disproportionate amount of power within the Council