The finance minister, Francois Baroin, recently declared that, “You’d rather be French than British in economic terms.” And even the French Prime minister, Francois Fillar, noted that Britain had higher debt and larger deficits than France.
现在，对于自己遭到信用降级的前景，法国官员的反应是猛烈抨击英国。法国央行行长努瓦耶（Christian Noyer）指出，评级机构要降级应该从英国开始降。财政部长巴鲁音（Francois Baroin）最近宣称，“就经济而言，宁可当法国人，不愿当英国人。”甚至法国总理菲永也指出，英国的债务和赤字都高于法国。