Slovakia as a source of dividends

Foreign owners and creditors earned €9bn (mainly dividends) on Slovak investments last year, while Slovak businesses earned €1.9bn from investments abroad, Eurostat data show. The €7.1bn investment income deficit (5.1% of GDP) was the 6th-highest in the EU, compared with 4.6% of GDP in Czechia and 4.1% each in Poland and Hungary. Austria, by contrast, had a surplus of 1.9% of GDP. Wages show the opposite balance: Slovaks earned €2.5bn working abroad last year, while foreigners sent home €477m in earnings.

(trend.sk)