Source: COFACE (Ranking based on Turnover)

1. GDP: USD 2,570 billion (2017 estimate)
2. GDP Growth: 1.4% (2017 estimate)
3. GDP (Share of World Total): 2.3% (2017 estimate)
4. GDP Composition by sector (2016 estimate): Agriculture: 1.7%; Industry 19.4%; Services: 78.8%
5. GDP Expenditure on R&D (%): 2.3%
6. Unemployment: 9.6% (2017 estimate)
7. Public Debt (% of GDP): 97.8% (2017 estimate)
8. Current Account Balance: USD -9.7 billion (2017 estimate)
9. Exports of Goods and Services as % of GDP: 30.0% (2015)
10. Shares in World Total Merchandising Export: 3.1% (2015)

Source : Austrian Institute of Economic Research

Loss for EU countries: € 17,6 billion and 400,000 jobs in 2015

About 550 subsidiaries of French companies in Russia employing 166 000 people and with a turnover of about € 30 bllion. French companies are present in numerous sectors of the Russian economy.

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Sanctions against Russia are contrary to the fundamental interests of Franco-Russian relations and have only for consequence the deterioration of the economic relations linking France and Russia.

Today the sanctions are totally inefficient to resolve international crisis and are dangerous for French interests.

A number of EU member states and business sectors have shown a stronger preference than others to lift the sanctions. Russia has strong historical and cultural ties with the Balkans and continues to count on political support from Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Greece and Cyprus. Visegrad countries in Central Europe are more divided, particularly as their economic ties to Russia place pressure on them to adopt a more conciliatory approach. Poland tends to take a harder line, with Czech and Slovakia showing more mixed stances.

La représentation d’intérêts (ou lobbying) auprès des responsables publics n’a donné lieu en France qu’à des mesures éparses, assez récentes . A partir de 2009, l’Assemblée nationale et le Sénat ont chacun mis en place des dispositifs spécifiques (inscription des représentants d’intérêts sur une liste et obligation pour ceux-ci de respecter certaines règles déontologiques).

Fillon’s views on Russia, in particular, fly in the face of the current European consensus. Fillon believes French policy has been too aligned with the US, whether on Ukraine or the Middle East in spite of the countries' significant differences in opinion on these issues. And that, with ISIS and Islamism being the top security priorities for France following the terror attacks since January 2015, an alliance with Vladimir Putin's Russia is badly needed, even at the price of conflating ISIS and other terrorist groups with any other forces fighting against the Assad government.

La plupart des régions françaises ont ouvert un bureau de représentation à Bruxelles soit à titre individuel soit en se rejoignat. Ces bureaux de représentation de collectivités poursuivent quatre grandes missions:

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