You can scoff all you want at the BDS movement, but as this article shows, it is having its desired effects and is spreading and shall spread at an accelerating pace.
2. the usa also dropped from 5. to 7. rank right after germany
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6 of the top 10 most competitiveness countries are located in europe. So far to the daily anti european propaganda the U.S. spread daily into the world to distract attention from their own economical decline!