::::You may have noticed that the GDP articles very carefully do not rank the EU. The problem here is that GDP is calculated on country basis; for example G8 includes 4 EU countries (and the EU as observer). If the EU is a single economy France, Germany, Italy and UK have no place in G8 and should yield their seat to a single EU representative. Simply put, even the richest EU countries do not accept the EU as a single economy; so we can't either.