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Originally Posted by drewg
Well, they are the 5th largest economy in the world (after the US, Japan, Germany and the UK) and the has the 3rd largest (46.2b$, second only to the US' 455.1b$ and the UK's 47.4b$) 1 defence budget. France is one of the most powerfull countries in the European Union, but compared to the US their economic and military power is indeed a lot less.  |
That surprised me. I thought France's economy was
whithering away like an unharvested grape on the vine.
But then again, I don't really think about France.