The rest of this article gives an overview of EU-25 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) statistics for annual flows, stocks at year-end and annual income for the period 2001- 2005. Both outward and inward flows increased in 2005 (+26% and +77% respectively), but outflows exceeded inflows by EUR 78 bn. FDI in its main partners (the USA and Switzerland) recovered. At EUR 178 bn, income from extra-EU …
This paper presents data for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from EU-15 Member States to the new Member States1 and for FDI from the new Member States to the rest of the world. In 2005, the EU-15 invested EUR 32 bn in the new Member States. This represented 17% of the EU-15 FDI outward flows, an increase of 5 percentage points from 2004. On the other hand, one third of the FDI flows from the n…
This article gives an overview of EU Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) statistics for annual flows, stocks at year-end and annual income for the period 2001- 2006. Both outward and inward flows increased in 2006 (+11% and +24% respectively), and outflows exceeded inflows by EUR 103 bn. The EU FDI towards its main partners increased significantly. At EUR 211 bn, income from extra-EU FDI reached …