UK economy will overtake France to become second biggest economy in Europe next year, IMF predicts

• UK output predicted to be £1.9trillion ($3 trillion) next year against France's £1.8trillion​

• IMF said France held back by 'bloated' publicsector and high state spending​

• Britain set to be fastest growing economy in the developed world this year​

Britain will overtake France to become the second-biggest economy in Europe behind Germany next year, the International Monetary Fund has said.

Read more: UK economy will overtake France next year, IMF predicts | Daily Mail Online


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This is gonna be such a massive embarrassment for France which not only has the bigger population than the UK but the size of it's economy consists of the GDP output of it's French oversea territories, military bases and oversea French cities as well. Meanwhile, many French companies and their headquarters are relocating to the UK in order to have better access to the world's largest financial centre and it's global markets, whilst young French professionals, graduates, and wealthy business tycoons are flocking to London everyday in order to get a better life. Welcome to broken island.

 

In France there are about 150,000 immigrants from Britain, while there are only 125,000 French in Britain.

 

German model is ruinous for Germany, and deadly for Europe - Telegraph

 

Are you including the ones in Calais that you keep trying to send us?

If asylum seekers arrive in Calais then France should be dealing with their application for asylum, not the UK. Stop sending us your garbage.

Germany is having a rough spell but I don't worry much for them. Their budget is balanced and their debt is relatively low. They also have lots of exports. So whilst they've had a couple of rough quarters for growth there's no endemic problem there.

 

It's the contrary: it's because we block them that they are in Calais; And they ate not French, they just pass through France.

Have you read the article? It is speaking of structural problems and not of the conjonctural one of the moment.

 

If they're genuine asylum seekers their asylum application should be dealt with at the first EU country they arrive at and either accepted or rejected - resulting in them being deported back. They should not be allowed to loiter hoping to get to the UK.

Actually sounds like an article written by bankers trying to get Germany into debt. Germany knows about debt and inflation and it will never go there.

The Eurozone economic woes are largely self-inflicted, resulting from the sanctions exchange with Russia, which has benefited neither side.

 

But they arrive in Italy and Spain, not in France. Italy and Spain doesn't block them and we block them, what is your point?

 

Misleading figure. London alone is the 6th biggest French city in the world. There are over 400,000 French living in London.

Let alone the skyrocketing unemployment rate in France overall compared to the UK which has one of the lowest unemployment rate in Europe.

BBC News - London, France's sixth biggest city

Welcome to London, France's sixth biggest city: More French nationals live in English capital than Bordeaux or Strasbourg | Daily Mail Online

 

Take it up with Italy and Spain.

 

You should check your information before you post , Just under 100000 you have:
Paris (75) 2125851
Marseille (13) 797491
Lyon (69) 445274
Toulouse (31) 390301
Nice (06) 343123
Nantes (44) 270343
Strasbourg (67) 263941
Montpellier (34) 225511
Bordeaux (33) 215374
Rennes (35) 206194
Le Havre (76) 190924
Reims (51) 187181
Lille (59) 184647
Saint-Étienne (42) 180438
Toulon (83) 160712
Grenoble (38) 153426
Angers (49) 151322
Dijon (21) 150138
Brest (29) 149649
Le Mans (72) 146064
Clermont-Ferrand (63) 137154
Amiens (80) 135449
Aix-en-Provence (13) 134324
Limoges (87) 133924
Nîmes (30) 133406
Tours (37) 132677
Saint-Denis (974) 131649
Villeurbanne (69) 124152
Metz (57) 123704
Besançon (25) 117691
Caen (14) 114007
Orléans (45) 113089
Mulhouse (68) 110141
Rouen (76) 106560
Boulogne-Billancourt (92) 106316
Perpignan (66) 105096
Nancy (54) 103552

 

Where's your source? Please post less and think more next time.

And according to your uncredited statistics, London has jumped to 4th biggest French city position then. Well done, Boris.



French say au revoir to France: Over 2.5 million French people now live abroad, and most are crossing the channel and heading to London

According to a French Foreign Ministry report published at the end of last month, the top five destinations are the UK, Switzerland, the US, Belgium and Germany. The French consulate in London has estimated that up to 400,000 French nationals live in London, a number equal to the population of France’s sixth largest city.

French say au revoir to France: Over two million French people now live abroad, and most are crossing the channel and heading to London - Europe - World - The Independent

 

At the UK Census 2011, 129,804 natives of France lived in the United Kingdom, 66,654 of whom in Greater London

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/censu...es-in-england-and-wales/rft-table-qs203ew.xls
(look QS203EW_Numbers column "Europe: Other Europe: EU countries: Member countries in March 2001: France" line 15 ENGLAND AND WALES : 129804 and line 270 LONDON : 66654)

 

It doesn't change the fact that France economy will be taken over by the UK and that's what this thread is about.

 

Provided to believe that we can extrapolate the current economic parameters linearly forever.