“One logical answer to the EU bloc voting problem is to transform France’s permanent seat on the Security Council into an EU seat. That would appropriately recognize the EU’s power and importance: Only permanent members of the Security Council have a veto, after all.”
From “Stuffing the UN’s ballot box”, by David Frum, National Post, 14 October 2010
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/Stuffing+ballot/3668864/story.html