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The European Union should gain a seat at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to better advance its interests in the world and reinforce international human rights protection, peace and security and the multilateral order.
For years, efforts at reform of the UNSC have centred around expanding the number of permanent seats to countries such as Germany, Japan, India, Brazil and two African countries.
The EU has permanent observer status at the UN without voting rights; but has had a central role in coordinating its member state delegations. Due to an increasingly unstable international climate where multilateralism and the rules-based international order are under threat, the EU should have a seat at the table of global security management in line with its quest for more strategic autonomy.
Such a UNSC seat for the EU should go hand in hand with a comprehensive reform of the UN system; including an expansion of the membership, a greater role for global democratic participation including a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, and a move away from the veto-nature of the UNSC that has paralysed the world's foremost decision making forum for international security for years.
Such an EU seat could be established by transferring the French UNSC seat to the EU, or transform the new German seat (along with the aforementioned new country additions) into an EU representation.
Source: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-has-big-plans-for-un-security-council-seat/a-46877719
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I agree. France should cede its UNSC permanent seat to the EU
I strongly agree. Europe should invest its future in the success of global policy making at the UN, playing a key role as a reliable actor.
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''Such an EU seat could be established by transferring the French UNSC seat to the EU, or transform the new German seat (along with the aforementioned new country additions) into an EU representation.''
I do not mean that all those other new countries at the UNSC should be transformed into a single EU seat, which would be absurd and Eurocentric, but that they would exist alongside an EU representation that could flow from the French of theoretical German seat.
Ein gemeinsamer Sitz im UN- Sicherheitsrat wäre ein wichtiger Schritt für die EU als globalen Akteur. Allerdings braucht es erstmal eine Abkehr vom Einstimmigkeitsprinzip im europäischen Rat.
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None of the permanent members want to dilute their pre-eminence. Rather, they would any attempt to demonstrate just how threadbare democracy's beggar's garb has become.
Europe must learn to do without talking, and acknowledge its limits rather than posture. Every time Borrell blusters, he illustrates his impotence to actually do anything. Multilateralism has become a trap, whose legal mesh contains us while autocrats slip through.
We cannot bargain with China for power as it drains our independence, and returns with the money it has made of the technology it appropriated from our companies to buy those very companies in turn, and deny us our technological future. It is a vicious cycle which must not be broken in China, but over here. A seat at the council is useless until we have the power to have no use for it. We must rebuild our power from the ruins our trade policies have left it in. To be a blue collar Europe and work on real power even if it is small and local. That is power.
** A seat at the council is useless until we have enough real power to no longer need it.
:) * Rather, any such attempt would be used to demonstrate just how threadbare democracy's beggar's garb has become.
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