The amount of money sent outside the EU by people who live within it keeps growing every year and is significantly higher than the money inflow.
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00:00Personal money transfers, which EU country sends the most outside the bloc?
00:12The amount of money individuals are sending outside the European Union is growing rapidly.
00:19Since 2018, it jumped by 20 billion euros, reaching a record figure of 50 billion euros in 2023.
00:30That is a significant difference with money transfers received by residents in the EU,
00:37which totaled only 14 billion euros last year, a number that has remained fairly stable since 2018.
00:48All countries with a positive balance, meaning that they received more money in transfers than they sent,
00:56were in Eastern Europe, with nearly half being EU candidate members.
01:03Serbia tops the list, followed by Romania, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kosovo and Albania.
01:14France has the most negative balance of payments, minus 15.7 billion euros,
01:21followed by Spain, minus 8 billion, and Germany, minus 7.4 billion.