Which European countries have the highest public debt? The answer is in a table that places Portugal in the top 10.

The crisis in France is evident when looking at the graph of public debt as a percentage of GDP among the European Union countries: the hexagon is currently the third most indebted country in Europe, right after the "clinical cases" of Greece and Italy. The reality is that France has been running consecutive deficits since 1975. And the situation is likely to worsen with the current political crisis.