Europe in Poland accelerated the collapse of the Eastern bloc and the end of the Cold War. Germany was reunited, after the symbolic fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the maps of Central and Eastern Europe were redrawn once more. European integration also grew after World War II. The Treaty of Rome in 1957 established the European Economic Community between six Western European states with the goal of a unified economic policy and common market. In 1967 the EEC, European Coal and Steel Community and Euratom formed the European Community, which in 1993 became the European Union. The EU
Voting in the Council of the European Union analysis of the distribution of voting power under different voting rules in the EU Council often requires the use of complex computational methods that go beyond a mere calculation of vote share, such as the Shapley-Shubik index or the Banzhaf measure. According to Article 148 of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (EEC Treaty), acts of the Council required for their adoption: The values above are related to the EU-6, the founding member states. The treaty allocated the votes as follows: Under this system, Luxembourg had no voting power for acts proposed by the Commission. Article 148 of the