    Sentence |: Currently, how many votes: out  of the 352 total\-votes) are needed for a  majority?    Sentence 2: TEU article 16(4} ancl TFEU article  238(3) define this to mean at least 55 per  cent) of the Council members (not votes)  representing 65 per cent of the population of  the EU: currently this means around 74 per  cent, or 260 of the 352 votes: