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Originally Posted by Rochard
The French are worthless anyhow.
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France is a member state of the European Union, the largest one by area.
It is also the third largest in Europe behind Russia and Ukraine.
France has been a major power for several centuries with strong economic, cultural, military and political influence.
France colonised great parts of North America
France built the second largest empire of the time, including large portions of North, West and Central Africa, Southeast Asia, and many Pacific islands.
France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its main ideals expressed in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
France is one of the most developed countries and possesses the fifth largest economy by nominal GDP and seventh largest economy by purchasing power parity.
France enjoys a high standard of living as well as a high public education level, and has also one of the world's highest life expectancies.
It is the most visited country in the world, receiving 82 million foreign tourists annually.
France is one of the founding members of the European Union.
It is also a founding member of the United Nations, and a member of the Francophonie, the G8, G20, NATO, OECD, WTO, and the Latin Union.
It is one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and possesses the third largest nuclear weapons stockpile in the world.
Worthless... I wouldnt say so.
