Braml, Martin; Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2019
of the global surplus is a trade surplus that the EU has with itself. In this paper, we show that this self-surplus of … the EU amounts to a striking 307 billion Euro in 2018. It persists in goods, services, and secondary income accounts. It … also exists within the Euro Area, and is strongest between neighboring countries. Around the 2004 Eastern Enlargement the …