Strategic Relevance of France's Overseas Territories
... the massive forest fires saying that France, as a Latin American country, has the grounds to be worried about Brazil’s environmental policies. French Guiana is a key asset for Paris, the European Union and NATO. Paris being a member of the Alliance, NATO becomes implicitly as well as de jure implemented in Latin America. Moreover, the Amazonian park of Guiana is the largest national park in the European Union, and the currency used in the region is the euro, which strengthens the EU’s economic influence worldwide. In 2017, Guiana’s GDP at market exchange ...