Telegraph Article
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The European Union should have a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, the new Commissioner for External Affairs has said.
Benita Ferrero-Waldner, who was confirmed in the post on Thursday, believes that the EU must take a more communal approach in international institutions such as the UN.
"The more we speak with one voice, the better for us and the better for Europe. We are not important if we don't speak with one voice," she said.
The proposal will infuriate Eurosceptics and lead to accusations that the commissioner wants to undermine British sovereignty over foreign policy.
At the moment, there are only five permanent members of the UN Security Council: Britain, France, Russia, China and the United States.
Miss Ferrero-Waldner, a former Austrian foreign minister, said that the creation of an EU seat would give greater representation to smaller member states. She believes that Britain and France would not necessarily have to relinquish their seats if an EU position was created.
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But would that not give Britain and France double permanent membership of the UN council? And how would an EU representative have voted on Iraq?
More importantly, why do we need an EU representative if the EU isn't forming INTO phpbb_a superstate as some deluded/lying EU collaborators still claim?