ABSTRACT
This contribution focuses on the implications of Brexit for the functioning of the UN Security Council (UNSC) from the perspective of the EU. First, it outlines the importance of the UK’s permanent seat in the context of the Brexit debate, both from the viewpoint of the UK and from the EU and its 27 Member States. Second, it explores what as of now has been agreed about the UK and EU’s future relationship within the United Nations and the UNSC, in particular in the ‘Political Declaration setting out the framework for the future relationship between the European Union and the United Kingdom’. Third, the contribution revisits the current EU Treaty mechanisms for EU ‘actorness’ in the UNSC and highlights recent dynamics in the practices of EU Member States sitting on the UNSC. Lastly, the question of an ‘EU permanent seat’ is raised.
