Pursuits
Italy Most Exposed to Libya as Top Trading Partner: Chart of Day
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Italy’s trading ties with Libya make it the most exposed European Union country to any collapse in Muammar Qaddafi’s regime.
The CHART OF THE DAY shows that Italy bought 49 percent of Libya’s exports to the 27-nation EU in 2009 and was responsible for 39 percent of the bloc’s sales to the North African country, according to Eurostat, the EU’s Luxembourg-based statistics office. Germany bought 14 percent of Libyan exports.