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Germany presses France to cede UN seat to EU

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German finance minister Olaf Scholz on Wednesday urged France to cede its permanent seat on the UN Security Council and hand it over to the EU. "I realise this will take some convincing in Paris but it would be a bold and smart goal," Scholz said. France immediately rejected the idea. In a tweet, France's ambassador to the US Gerard Araud described it as "legally impossible".

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