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In 2004, the scientific community and media was convinced that the voting procedure of the European Council of Ministers was unfair [<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/3325470/The-EU-constitution-is-unfair-according-to-game-theorists.html" target="_blank">1</a>]. Many studies showed that the voting procedure formulated in the “Treaty of Nice”, which would come into effect on the 1. November of that year, would unfairly favor countries with big populations like Germany while being especially unfavorable for mid-sized countries like Spain and Poland. As a compromise, mathematicians from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow proposed to use the “double square root voting system” which, different from all previous voting procedures, should be based on game theoretical principles [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0701338.pdf" target="_blank">2</a>].