Combined remittances from Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Slovenia drop 18% in 2011 - Eurostat

Croatia, set to join the European Union in mid-2013, registered the sharpest drop in outflow of workers' remittances last year, of 24.7%, the bloc's statistics office said in a statement.

Money sent by migrants in Bulgaria and Slovenia to their country of origin remained almost unchanged last year while outflows from Romania fell 18.4%.

Bulgaria and Romania joined the bloc in 2007 while Slovenia became a EU member in 2004.

Details follow (in millions of euro):

*Money sent from an EU member state to another EU member state
**Money sent from an EU member state to a country outside the EU

($=0.7715 euro)