Press release No. 398 of 18 October 2024
- Serbia most important trading partner in the Western Balkan region
- Goods to the value of 6.4 billion euros imported from the Western Balkans
- Machinery most important German export to the Western Balkan countries
WIESBADEN – Talks to bring the Western Balkan countries closer to the European Union have been underway since 2014. The Western Balkan countries comprise the countries of Serbia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Kosovo. To coincide with the 10th anniversary of the launch of the Western Balkans Summit, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that Germany exported goods to the value of 5.8 billion euros to these countries in the period from January to August 2024. Exports to the Western Balkans therefore increased by 0.4 billion euros, or 8.2%, compared with the same period a year earlier. Compared with the first eight months of 2014, the year the first Western Balkans Summit was held, exports from Germany to these countries rose by 3.5 billion euros, or 148.5%.
Important information regarding the GENESIS-Online database:
Our database's new user interface will leave the beta phase and go online in the second half of October 2024. The new interface will offer faster data retrieval and intuitive table search and customisation options. There will also be changes to the structure of the machine-readable flat file (CSV) format and the data output format for table downloads. For further details and other important information on the release, please see the info page of the new GENESIS-Online database.
