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Seat Apportionment by Population and Contribution in European Parliament After Brexit

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Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XXXIV

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The problem of apportioning seats to member countries of the European Parliament after Brexit and in view of new accessions/exits is delicate, as countries with strong economies (and their consequent large contributions to the European Union) require that they have greater representative weight in the European Parliament. In this paper, we propose a model for seat apportionment in the European Parliament, which assigns seats taking into account both the percentages of the populations and the percentages of the contributions by each member state to the European Union budget by means of a linear combination of these two quantities. The proposed model is a modification of the approach given by Bertini, Gambarelli, and Stach in 2005. Using the new model, we studied the power position of each European Union member state before and after the exit of the United Kingdom using the Banzhaf power index. A short latest-literature review on this topic is given.

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This research is financed by the funds (No. 16.16.200.396) of AGH University of Science and Technology, MIUR, research grants from the University of Bergamo, and the GNAMPA group of INDAM.

The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their numerous comments and suggestions that led us to improving this paper.

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  1. Department of Management, Economics and Quantitative Methods, University of Bergamo, Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127, Bergamo, Italy

    Cesarino Bertini & Gianfranco Gambarelli

  2. AGH University of Science and Technology, Al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059, Krakow, Poland

    Izabella Stach

  3. Institute Leonardo da Vinci, Bergamo, Italy

    Giuliana Zibetti

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  1. Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

    Ngoc Thanh Nguyen

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    Ryszard Kowalczyk

  3. WSB University in Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland

    Jacek Mercik

  4. WSB University in Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland

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Bertini, C., Gambarelli, G., Stach, I., Zibetti, G. (2019). Seat Apportionment by Population and Contribution in European Parliament After Brexit. In: Nguyen, N., Kowalczyk, R., Mercik, J., Motylska-Kuźma, A. (eds) Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XXXIV. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11890. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-60555-4_8

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