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To be fair most, if not all of those rankings are provided by institution in English language countries.
Look at this forum, there is a UK forum, a Canada forum, an Australian forum, even an Ottawa and Calgary forum, but there is no forum for countries like France or Germany.
I'm making reference to lists that have been published around the world by international organisations. Even the The Mori Memorial Foundation in Tokyo ranks London as #1, closely followed by New York. Paris often futures on the next tier, alongside cities such as Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Shanghai, Dubai, etc.
I'm making reference to lists that have been published around the world by international organisations. Even the The Mori Memorial Foundation in Tokyo ranks London as #1, closely followed by New York. Paris often futures on the next tier, alongside cities such as Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Shanghai, Dubai, etc.
That institution is the only non-Anglo one.
You can't deny the bias. Anglo countries values things like diversity, finance, and in France, diversity is not something considered particularly attractive (the president claims France is not multicultural) and France definitely doesn't care that much about finance (Holland claims to be an enemy of banks).
Let's be honest, in all these rankings, there is an anglophone bias.
I do not see Paris ahead of London. Both cities are on an equal level, with both cities leading in some sectors.
However figurering out number three is difficult: Germany as the biggest economy in Europe does not have THE ONE big city, Berlin is important politically but absolutely not economically, as it is rather poor and lacking large industries. Frankfurt has some industry and the largest airport but is too small to be really important.
Culturally I would say Rome, because the city is extremely important for the whole European history, but then again economically lacking behind other cities and too far in the South to be one of the top cities of Europe.
Well, maybe we just don't need a third most important city.
germany is much more balanced than france or the uk , it has more than a dozen important regional cities which are economically important but you probably cant single out a german city as dominating any sphere in europe to the point of it being third most important
brussells is the political centre of the EU so its third for me
Brussels can be the political centre of the EU but that doesn't say much as it's formed by all EU countries. Also this is an entire Europe thread so Brussels is no competitor for Moscow or Madrid in importance or economics. Madrid is the 3rd in the EU, 4th in Europe. No doubts.
So a good one third of Europe would consider Russia as part of Europe. It would be like me saying that Miami/Florida doesn't effect me, a Seattleite, in any major way, so there for Miami/Florida is not a part of the US.
russia is not politically part of europe or culturally
Nonsense, Russia is culturally European wether you like it or not.
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