The EU, the UN, and the Rest of Us

Over at No Pasaran is this item about the European Union making a bid for its own representation in the United Nations. ♠

Do you think they will eventually ask for a permanent seat♥ on the UN Security Council?

To accommodate them, who should give up a seat?

And how will this play with the need to provide permanent seats to India and Japan, which I would favor, given their positions in the world?  Of course the problem with India is Pakistan, which will wish equal status.

There is also the argument that a nation from Latin America should have a permanent seat and also a nation from Africa.  Should there be a Muslim nation with a permanent seat on the SC?  Would Turkey count as a Muslim nation, and if it did, would that be acceptable to the EU?

I think that we should just leave well enough alone.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  And, there is also this from a 14 July posting, providing some background.
♥  As in having the power of the Veto on the UN Security Council, as does, currently, the US, the UK, France, Russia and China, the major allies from World War II.