11.   German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel appealed to Britain Wednesday to join European monetary union and break the taboo against qualified majority voting in EU foreign policy and security issues.

12.   In any event, the sanctions decision will have to be made by the finance ministers of the euro system members, voting by a qualified majority.

13.   In all other cases, including the principle, of dispatching a European intervention force, a revised system of qualified majority voting would be introduced.

14.   Britain also refrained from blocking decisions taken previously by qualified majority but which, for procedural reasons, required unanimity to go through.

15.   But they were expected Tuesday to overrule French objections and adopt -- by qualified majority vote -- a package of reforms for the management of European pension funds.

16.   Exceptions to this rule would require a qualified majority vote by the EU council of ministers, he suggested.

17.   The two political groups said that foreign policy and defence issues that had no military implications should be decided by qualified majority voting.

18.   The recommendations of the standing committee must be adopted by qualified majority voting, the system which gives greater weight to the vote of certain countries.

19.   To get a decision through the SVC, Britain has to win the backing of a qualified majority of EU states.

20.   Is there a need for more decisions by a qualified majority?