Macron May Offer Up UN Seat in Push for EU Army

France is the only member country to have a permanent seat on the council following Britain’s exit from the European Union. The European Union has only observer status. The United Kingdom, the United States, China and Russia have the other four permanent seats and veto rights on the body charged with maintaining international peace. French demands from influential countries such as Germany, Italy and Spain to increase their defense spending were met, in response, by demands from Berlin that Paris take its seat at the United Nations to work for Brussels. Angela Merkel and Olaf Schulz, the first contestant to…