Foreign relations of France | Wikipedia audio article
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Foreign relations of France


00:01:07 1 Fifth Republic since 1981
00:01:18 1.1 François Mitterrand: 1981–1995
00:02:04 1.2 Jacques Chirac
00:02:13 1.3 Nicolas Sarkozy
00:04:21 1.4 François Hollande
00:05:23 1.5 Emmanuel Macron, 2017 - present
00:07:47 2 International organization participation
00:09:27 3 International border disputes
00:10:05 4 Middle East
00:11:24 4.1 1945–1958
00:12:47 4.2 De Gaulle's policies
00:16:37 4.3 Foreign aid
00:18:45 5 Bilateral relations
00:18:54 5.1 Africa
00:19:43 5.2 Americas
00:19:51 5.3 Asia
00:21:09 5.4 Europe
00:21:53 5.5 Oceania
00:22:01 6 See also



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In the 19th century France  built a new colonial empire second only to the British Empire. It was humiliated in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, which marked the rise of Germany to dominance in Europe. France was on the winning side of the First World War, but fared poorly in the Second World War. It fought losing wars in Indochina (ending in 1954) and Algeria (ending in 1958).  The Fourth Republic collapsed and the Fifth Republic began in 1958 to the present. Under Charles De Gaulle it tried to block American and British influence on the European community.  Since 1945 France has been a founding member of the United Nations, of NATO, and of the European Coal and Steel Community (the European Union's predecessor). As a charter member of the United Nations, France holds one of the permanent seats in the Security Council and is a member of most of its specialized and related agencies.
France is also a founding member of the Union for the Mediterranean and the La Francophonie and plays a key role, both in regional and in international affairs.