Publication

May 2011

The EU’s contribution to the reform of the UN Security Council (UNSC) represents a crucial policy and institutional input to assess the Union’s capability to act. The first part of this paper opens with an analysis of the UN Charter’s requirements for UN membership and the procedure for amendment. This procedure has to be set in motion when an increase of membership is demanded, as proved by the change in the SC composition in 1963. In the second part of the paper an assessment will be made of the main changes brought in by the Lisbon Treaty in the EU’s presence at the UN, keeping both the broader UN framework and the specific case of the Security Council in view.

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Author Nicoletta Pirozzi, Natalino Ronzitti
Series IAI Documents and Working Papers
Issue 12
Publisher Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)
Copyright © 2011 Istituto Affari Internazionali
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