Libyans wave the national flag as they celebrate the first anniversary of the uprising in Libya, in February 2012: During the visit, German businesspeople found that Libyan companies were much more eager to speak and do business with the French, who played a leading role in providing the rebels with military backing. DPAPaying For UN Abstention: German Businesses Unwelcome In Postwar Libya -- Spiegel Online
Before the Libyan revolution, Germany was the country's second-largest trading partner. But then Germany abstained in a 2011 UN vote to militarily intervene in its civil war. Now that the war is over, German businesses and think tanks are finding that most Libyans want little to do with them.
Henning Schnaars, who works for a shipping company in the northern German port city of Bremen, is standing with his two trolley cases on the side of a road in Libya. He has just been handed his first setback.
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My Comment: The Germans should not complain too much .... the Russians and Chinese are the ones who are really in the toilet.