Yeah I was reading about it and its shocking, France is still an Empire, it controls more sea than entire EU.
France controls its former colonies in West Africa through their currency. I don’t always see central banks as the bad guys but in this case it’s truly evil.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2017/07/12/the-cfa-franc-french-monetary-imperialism-in-africa/
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But, but we are the "good guys", we Europeans (this is irony)