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Germany, France, Spain etc are small nations? What's the criteria for one then?
by sk0g 6y ago
Germany, France, Spain etc are small nations? What's the criteria for one then?
- majewsky 6y agoGermany on its own would not be on on equal footing when negotiation trade agreements with the likes of China, the US or Russia. The EU is.
- 317070 6y agoGermany has more than twice the GDP of Russia. They could reasonably handle themselves. US and China are considerably larger however.
- golemiprague 6y agoGermany like Japan and Korea might be because although they don't have the population they are punching above their weight but any other European country is indeed too small and insignificant. I still think Brexit is a good idea, the UK got the commonwealth and the US, speaking the same language is a powerful parameters when it comes to relations between countries so it is not the same thing as if Italy or France have left. Spain has latin America but the overall value of the Spanish speaking world is smaller than the English one. Not to mention all the other benefits you gain by running your own country without intervention from some entity that nobody really elected or understand what they do.