How would he handle this economic giant that was still a political midget?

Rather it was his country, a nation long referred to in the postwar years as "an economic giant but a political dwarf."

It's a commonplace that China is the world's emerging economic giant.

Germany has been an economic giant for decades particularly in manufacturing.

"The money will finance the balance of the case, and help us do battle against an economic giant," he said.

So we are talking about an economic, historic, cultural and commercial giant which appears today to be waking up after a very long sleep.

The Union cannot continue another day as an economic giant and a social, political and cultural dwarf.

Europe today can no longer be an economic giant and a political dwarf.

Let us make use of the fact that the EU is an economic giant.

Europe must therefore cease being an economic giant and a political dwarf.