21/02/2019 · Economic decline, first of all: the country has been falling steadily in the ranking of world economies since the beginning of the 20th century, to now rank 7th. German SMEs file twice as many patents as French SMEs, and there is no French company in the top 50 companies filing the most patents in the world, unlike Asian countries such as Japan ...

France has a history of grandiose government spending, even among European countries. Public spending accounts for 57 percent of national output, and public debt accounts for over 90 percent of GDP. While austerity has been the buzz word in the rest of Europe since 2009 resulting in a modest decline in government spending as a percentage of GDP ...

22/10/2021 · France's attempts at maintaining deep relations have proved futile. Despite Paris' attempts at appeasement, French colonisation and misbehaviour towards the region still weigh heavily in relations between the countries. Yet, it is not French colonisation and ineffective policy alone behind the decoupling of North African states and France.

01/11/2004 · The decline of France? Daniel Cohen 01 November 2004. Written in 2003: France fails to recognise the new world of which it is already a part; French state capitalism is dead, and the French find it hard to come to terms with its passing. The thin stream of consensus-based reforms allowed the French to live in one world while thinking that they ...

08/12/2003 · France's decline on the foreign-policy stage has the same root cause, Baverez thinks: a desperate, retrograde clutching at institutions that no longer serve their original purpose. Nostalgic for the bipolar confrontation of the Cold War--not just because it was stable but also because it provided a context in which France could leverage its ...

06/12/2021 · Decline. Despite a high standard of living, a permanent seat at the U.N. Security Council and a country that remains the No. 1 tourist destination in the world, the French perception of their own country’s decline is acute. “Immigration has emerged as a major concern because the French people are deeply convinced that France is in decline.

06/08/2010 · France being the only country in the world with a majority of French native speakers, la Francophonie relies heavily on France for its prestige. But what if France itself is in steep decline? Plus de sept Français sur dix estiment que la France est "en déclin", même si elle dispose de "beaucoup d'atouts" aux yeux de 79% d'entre eux.

The economy of France is a highly developed, market-oriented economy. It is the world's seventh-largest economy by 2020 nominal figures and the ninth-largest economy by PPP, constituting 3.3% of world GDP. As of September 30, 2020, it was the 3rd largest economy of Europe, after the economy of Germany and the economy of the United Kingdom.. France has a diversified …