The preliminary results of the EU-27's current account balance for 2006 showed a deficit of €85.5 billion compared with €66.1 billion in 2005 and €20.6 billion in 2004. This result was mainly due to a growing deficit in goods and current transfers balances (-€168.5 billion and -€51.3 billion respectively). In contrast, the EU-27 continued to increase its external surplus in the servic…