Money transfer by immigrant workers from the EU to their Countries of origin carried out in the yeaer 2006 amounts to 26 billion euro, 19 of which to Third World countries and 7 billion within Community borders. The data supplied by Eurostat, the EU Statistic office, in the framework of a survey financed by the General Direction for Financial and Economic Affairs of the Commission published last November 13, registered over 10% increase compared to 2005. Over 85% of the total monetary flow comes from Spain, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany and France and is mostly directed to non-Community Europe, Northern Africa, Sub-Saharian Africa, Latin America and Asia. The major ten processes identified in the study refer to remittance between Germany and Turkey, France and Morocco, France and Portugal, Spain and Morocco, Spain and Colombia, Germany and Serbia-Montenegro. On the whole, as relates to the transfer of immigrant workers, the EU-27 transferred to Third Word countries more than twice the amount they transferred to the European Union.
