- Switzerland is a significant host country for FDI but also a major outward investor with an outward stock in 2010 of more than $900 billion, making it the fourth largest European source country of FDI, after the United Kingdom, France and Germany. Its TNCs currently employ 2.6 million people abroad.
- The stock of inward and outward FDI in Finland has consistently grown in importance for the economy, from 4 per cent of GDP in 1990 to 35 per cent of GDP in 2010.
- Despite the small size of its national economy, the inward FDI stock of Estonia is sizeable ($16 billion). This is mainly due to major market reforms, investment liberalization, and a privatization process open to foreign investors. With an outward FDI stock of $5.8 billion, Estonia had the second highest outward stock per capita (after Cyprus) among all new EU member countries in 2010.
- With an open economy and an investor-friendly tax system, Latvia has attracted a large amount of inward FDI relative to the size of its economy. At the end of 2010, its inward FDI stock reached $10.8 billion, equivalent to about 45 per cent of the gross domestic product.
- Lithuania has attracted relatively modest foreign investment, despite its membership of the EU. At the end of 2010, its inward FDI stock totaled $13.4 billion. Like Latvia, but unlike Estonia, the outward FDI stock was comparatively small at $2.1 billion.
- The Czech Republic continues to be a magnet for FDI in the enlarged EU. In 2010, its inward FDI stock reached $130 billion - an amount equivalent to two thirds of its GDP.
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