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This paper discusses the implications of EU enlargement on the EU decision-making processes. It studies the options facing EU leaders using the Normalised Banzhaf Index. The paper provides quantitative estimates on the decision-making efficiency and distribution of power for the various schemes proposed. Insight is offered on how aspects of different voting rules affect member states. Finally, it considers how the flawed voting system set out in the Nice Treaty could be repaired, enabling a respectable level of decision-making efficiency and almost no change to the power distribution agreed on at Nice.