In the fourth quarter of 2025, the European Union’s non‑financial corporate business investment rate fell to 21.8%, the lowest level recorded since the third quarter of 2015. Since 2014 the rate has followed two distinct patterns: a steady rise from 22% in 2014 to nearly 24% in 2018, followed by a near‑continuous decline from 2021 to the current low. Sharp increases in the second quarter of 2015, 2017 and 2019, and again in the fourth quarter of 2019 and first quarter of 2020, were largely driven by spikes in intellectual‑property imports linked to globalisation. In 2024, Hungary led EU member states with a 28.4% rate, while Luxembourg had the lowest at 15.9%.
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