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EU Foreign Direct Investment in 2003 Inflows and outflows close to balance FDI to the US recovered
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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 1998-2003. The data presented here incorporate a major revision for the period 1999-20031. EU FDI outflows remained stable in 2003 with respect to 2002, while EU FDI inflows decreased (-19%). EU income earned from FDI in extra-EU countries also decreased with respect to 2002 (-6%), while FDI income paid by the EU to extra-EU countries decreased even more (-15%). This article also presents data on FDI stocks and flows by main kind of activity, from which it emerges that investment in services activities plays a dominant role. Data by kind of activity are available only for the EU15.