When post-decline finally assumes its position as a middle power

When post-decline finally assumes its position as a middle power
When post-decline France finally assumes its position as a middle power

UA profound and subtle change is taking place in the French psyche. After decades of struggling with its post-war decline, finally appears to be making peace with its new global status. This evolution is manifested in multiple areas: the gradual abandonment of resistance to Anglicisms, the acceptance of a role as a middle power, although still influential in Europe and French-speaking Africa. This transformation, far from weakening the country, paradoxically allows it to better exploit its real assets.

France also retains unique specificities: an autonomous and ambitious intellectual life, powerful public media capable of maintaining substantive debates, and an elite which, despite its faults, remains attached to structural republican values…


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