Tag: Eurostat

The 27 EU countries are spending more on social protection because of the poorly performing economy, with total expenditure having increased by around 10% between 2007 and 2010, according to new figures from Eurostat.

The path to sustainable growth is complex and measures taken will have an uncertain outcome, but this is a time for responsible action not panic, the newly elected American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) president, Hendrik Bourgeois, told EurActiv on the eve of the EU-US summit.

Ministers meeting in Luxembourg yesterday (7 June) approved an overhaul of how the EU collects data from the bloc's public accounts, after Greece was caught tampering with the size of its deficits and amid fears that Hungary is doing the same.

Statistics show that European businesses invest significantly more in R&D and innovation in the manufacturing sector than in the services sector. 

All EU member states have made considerable efforts to work through their backlog in transposing EU legislation, the new Internal Market scoreboard says. The EU-10 have in many cases done better than the EU-15.

If the Council approves a Commission proposal, the EU's statistical office Eurostat will soon be able to carry out in-depth monitoring visits in member states to verify national budget statistics.

On the eve of the biggest wave of enlargement in the EU's history, the EC's statistical office Eurostat has published a compilation of economic and social indicators comparing EU-15 with EU-25.

Commission President Romano Prodi has rejected calls for resignations of members of his Commission over fraud in the EU's statistics agency Eurostat.

On 25 September, Commission President Romano Prodi will report to the European Parliament about the results of the Commission's inquiry into alleged irregularities at the EU's statistical office, the Eurostat.

The former director of Eurostat Yves Franchet, who was suspended in May this year following a financial scandal at the EU statistics office, says the Commission had all his internal audit reports since February 2000.

The Commission has denied rumours that Commissioner Pedro Solbes, responsible for economic and monetary affairs, was going to hand in his resignation over the Eurostat affair.

On 16 July, MEPs called on Commission President Romano Prodi to face the Parliament's investigators over the growing Eurostat scandal.

A Commission spokesman rejected as "sheer rubbish" allegations by the Financial Times newspaper that Romano Prodi ignored warnings of possible fraud at Eurostat, the EU's statistics office.