Homework: Protocol about the role play

Good evening,
here is my entry about our role play today. At first we had to build the European Parliament. So everyone got a card with informations on it e.g. which group you belong to and how much members of European Parliament you present. I was in the Group of the Party of European Socialists and becaue there are over 700 MEPs in the Parliament, everyboy represented more than one MEP.
After building the Parliament we have got a proposal of the Commission. The proposal was about that driving licences should be validated throughout all EU member states every 10 years and if drivers are over 65 years every 5 years. After that time you have to do a medical check. The second thought of the proposal was that new plastic cards will be used which carry biometric data on so-calld "smart chips". Then our group has to find an opinion about it and if we want to refuse, adopt or amend something to the proposal. It wasn't very difficult to form coalitions with other parties to get a qualified majority, because every party in the class had approximately the same opinion about the proposal. We made a voting and because almost everyone was against the second thought of the proposal, we refused it. The time was sadly to short to play a minister in the Council.
In reality I think that there are still more problems to adopt a proposal. You have to search for other MEPs/ministers who have the same opinion to get a qualified majority. That's difficult. You have to imagine that there are 25 member states in the EU and every member state has his own interests.
The role play was good for a better unterstanding of the codecision procedure. Of course you can imagine how the procedure works, but with a role play e.g. you have to take the role of a person and you have to think about how this person would react in this special situation.