However, there is nothing intrinsically democratic about an individual veto, nor is it an effective method of running an organisation with a lot of members. What is democratic about one member state of four million people vetoing a treaty negotiated and agreed on behalf of 370 million people? Worse, it has been suggested that the Taoiseach should have attempted to use the veto to dictate to the rest of Europe. Such dictation would not have been accepted.