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Old 05-01-2009, 11:43 AM   #17
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I found a BBC article from 3 years ago with has a map of the area at odds.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programme...ts/4781886.stm

Something else interesting from that article.
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What France has done is pump massive subsidies, 60 million euros a year, into the economy to keep it going.

The islands have suffered economically in recent times
Subsidies pay for a huge programme of public works projects and roughly 1000 civil servants who administer them. This, for a population of 6,500. Without the subsidies, the economy would collapse.
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