If (as some suggest) banks in France (for example) were only making safe loans in the domestic market, then the lending levels won't change that much. Banks to need to continue "safe lending" to keep their cashflow up.

The problem in the UK is that a large percentage of lending was "unsafe" so it's sudden disappearance amounts to a credit crunch. If you are a safe bet (under the assumptions of say, 10 years ago) you can get money from a British bank right now, with few problems. The issue is that consumers and businesses had both adjusted to a different regime, so few of them qualify as safe bets right now.