Translation of "solde de la balance migratoire " (French → English) :

As regards the keeping of the accounts, it is necessary to specify the principles applicable to the accounting ledgers, the trial balance, the periodical reconciliation of the totals in that balance and the inventory, and to specify the components of the chart of accounts adopted by the Commission’s accounting officer.

In a case like this where the government is negotiating a trade deal with a developing country, people are looking at our country and saying that we are taking advantage of that country, that we are a much bigger country, that we have a much bigger trade balance than Panama.

EUROPA - EU law and publications - EUR-Lex - EUR-Lex - 32008D0458 - EN - 2008/458/EC: Commission Decision of 5 March 2008 laying down rules for the implementation of Decision No 575/2007/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the European Return Fund for the period 2008 to 2013 as part of the General programme Solidarity and Management of Migration Flows as regards Member States' management and control systems, the rules for administrative and financial management and the eligibility of expenditure on projects co-financed by the Fund (notified under document number C(2008) 796) - COMMISSION DECISION // laying down ...[+++]rules for the implementation of Decision No 575/2007/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the European Return Fund for the period 2008 to 2013 as part of the General programme ‘Solidarity and Management of Migration Flows’ as regards Member States' management and control systems, the rules for administrative and financial management and the eligibility of expenditure on projects co-financed by the Fund // (notified under document number C(2008)796) // (Only the Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish texts are authentic) // (2008/458/EC) // MODEL DESCRIPTION OF MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL SYSTEMS // MODEL MULTI-ANNUAL PROGRAMME // MODEL ANNUAL PROGRAMME // MODEL PROGRESS REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ANNUAL PROGRAMME // MODEL FINAL REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ANNUAL PROGRAMME // MODEL AUDIT STRATEGY // MODEL REPORT BY THE AUDIT AUTHORITY // MODEL DECLARATION OF EXPENDITURE FOR THE SECOND PRE-FINANCING // MODEL DECLARATION OF EXPENDITURE FOR PAYMENT OF THE BALANCE // INSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING THE EMBLEM AND DEFINITION OF THE STANDARD COLOURS // RULES ON THE ELIGIBILITY OF EXPENDITURE — EUROPEAN RETURN FUND

Trade balance is positive for the EU.

A pick-up in export growth has led to a mild improvement in the average trade and current account balances, to around -3.4% and +2% of GDP respectively.

Developing countries' exports to the EU have increased by 15 percent per year on average since 1995 and their trade balance with the EU went into surplus in 1999.