| Economics |
| Unemployment rate 12.5% |
| Currency and Exchange |
| Natural Resources |
| Exports |
| Key Industries |
| Tourism, machinery, iron and steel, chemicals, food processing, textiles, motor vehicles, clothing, footwear, ceramics |
| Main agricultural products |
| International debt |
| (1998) GDP $1.181 Trillion GDP per capita: $20,800 |
| They are using the Euro. The exchange rate of Us dollars to the Euro is .896 |
| Annual rate of inflation: 2% |
| Imports |
| $243 billion (1998) Engineering products, textiles and clothing, production machinery, motor vehicles, transport equipment, chemicals, food, beverages and tobacco, minerals and nonferrous metals. |
| Fruits, vegetables, grapes, potatoes, sugarbeets, soybeans, grain, olives, beef, fish, dairy products. |
| Mercury, potash, marble, sulfur, fish, coal, and dwindling natural gas and crude oil reserves. |
| $202 Billion (1998) engineering products, chemicals, transport equipment, energy products, minerals, and nonferrous metals, textiles and clothing, food, beverages and tobacco |
| $45 billion |