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 1999-2004. Both outward and inward FDI flows continued to fall in 2004 (-15% and 46% respectively), but outflows exceeded the inflows by EUR 53 bn. There was a disinvestment of EUR 3 bn towards USA and new countries emerged as the main partners f…