French involvement in the Europe after 2001.

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It would be irrational and dangerous but I can see some sort of Flemish underground starting up in the wake of union with France. I think that a de-facto French seizure of Belgium would be the straw that broke the camel's back for some Flemish Belgians. The more militant among them might form an underground of sorts or a separatist terrorist organization. I don't see them doing any more than ETA has done in Spain but they would be a nuisance.

Have any of you seen Children of Men? Great film, IMHO. I see the French having to deal with significant internal strife resulting from anti-refugee sentiments. There'd be loads of refugees from all over Europe, Africa, and the Middle East trying desperately to find sanctuary on French soil. This would undoubtedly worry and upset a lot of French citizens. I see some right-wing French nationalists extending anti-refugee sentiments/actions to anti-immigrant sentiment/actions (i.e. "if you're not racially French, get out of France!"). I can see riots much like the ones that occured a couple of years ago when French police shot and killed a Muslim boy in one of France's ethnic ghettos.

How would the French government deal with this? Who knows. But it would be a serious issue that they would have to deal with.

As for French involvement in the rest of Europe, I've posted a few times that I think that the French would actively court/pursue Poland as an eastern foil to help contain Germany and inhibit its revival. I think both the French and the Poles (the Polish, moreso) have an almost atavistic fear of Germany and anything either could do to keep Germany off balance would be done.

I see the French DGSE attempting to acquire the Black Madonna as a means to manipulate religious sentiment in Poland. There's that Catholic brotherhood thing to cultivate and exploit. An FFL direct action unit made up of men of Eastern European descent would be perfect for the job. I have a PC in my PoV campaign that ended up in Poland this way.