Those most offended by it are the smallest, weakest countries, which are vulnerable and emit very little.

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Even Greece, one of the weakest crisis countries by these measures, is coming up to four decades of unbroken democracy.

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Moody's said the global financial and economic crisis had led to a "deterioration" in French government debt, which was now "among the weakest" of countries with the top AAA rating.

BBC: Moody's warns on France's credit rating

Since the new Europe-wide rule to strengthen banks is that they must - by the middle of 2012 - have a minimum of 9% capital on a Basel 2.5 basis relative to their risk-weighted assets, after allowing for the fall in the price of their holdings of the debts of over-indebted eurozone countries, by definition it is the banks in those over-indebted eurozone countries that emerge as weakest.

BBC: Southern European banks need most capital

The first concerned one of most powerful countries in the world, the U.S., and the last concerned one of the weakest, Slovakia.

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