They want to destroy the UN as it is today, and most especially the existence of a SC and veto capacity. Whatever prestige France supposedly gains from its SC seat and veto is more than offset in its eyes by the USA having the same power....This stands in the way of the many wonderful multilateral "reforms" that the EU/Third World alliance could otherwise inflict upon the world, such as global taxation, forced adherence to all UN treaties and protocols such as the ICC , Kyoto, etc.
In September of 2000 WJC along with most world heads of state signed the Millenniuum Summit charter for global democracy. It was explained away as a mere UN 'wish list', when some protested in the media that it was far more invasive of national sovereignty than is the original UN charter. And nothing has been done to enforce the MS document since its signing.
But suppose France's antics do destroy the current UN, and most especially the SC/veto curb. And suppose as a result the UN re-forms using the MS document as the new charter. What then? The US would have to decide between staying in a UN in which it would be continually outvoted, or leaving the UN entirely, and being declared a 'global outlaw'. The real danger at that point would be if the desire on the part of the EU/Third World alliance at seeing US power curbed is so great that the alliance is willing to destroy the global economy, creating a true global depression:
They might decide to force the US to rejoin the UN and adhere to Kyoto and the ICC, the various antiHate Speech internet measures the EU passed,etc, by an economic embargo against the US , and by demanding we remove our bases on which the US depends for 'global reach'.
Tinfoil? I hope so.
No. It was a French power play - and they are going to lose.