> Germany just "just": "In the past, [Merkel] and Foreign Minister Heiko Maas have both called for individual EU countries’ seats on the UNSC to be “europeaniz

> Germany just "just": "In the past, [Merkel] and Foreign Minister Heiko Maas have both called for individual EU countries’ seats on the UNSC to be “europeanized.”" > requested "proposed" > that France give up their UN security council seat so that the EU could have it "To lessen the pain of losing the powerful seat, France could become “the permanent EU ambassador to the United Nations,”"