Eurostat is a Directorate-General of the European Commission located in Luxembourg. Its main responsibilities are to provide the European Union with statistical information at European level and to promote the integration of statistical methods across the Member States of the European Union, candidate countries and EFTA countries. The organisations in the different countries which actively cooperate with Eurostat are summarised under the concept of the European Statistical System.

Organisation

As a Directorate-General of the Commission, Eurostat is allocated to the portfolio of the Commissioner for Economic & Financial Affairs, Olli Rehn.

The current Director-General of Eurostat is since 2008, former President of the Federal Statistical Office of Germany. Current Deputy Director-General is since 2004, former President of the Czech Statistical Office.

History

1953 The Statistics Division for the European Coal and Steel Community established.

1958 The European Community founded and the forerunner of Eurostat established.

1959 The present name of Eurostat as the Statistical Office of the European Communities adopted. First publication issued - on agricultural statistics.

1960 First Community Labour Force Survey.

1970 The European System of Integrated Economic Accounts (European System of Accounts, ESA) published and the general Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community (NACE) established.

1974 First domain in the statistical database Cronos databank installed.

1988 European Commission adopts a document defining the first policy for statistical information.

1989 The Statistical Programme Committee established and the first programme (1989-1992) adopted by the Council as an instrument for implementing statistical information policy.

1990 The Council adopts a directive on transmission of confidential data to Eurostat, previously an obstacle to Community statistical work.

1991 Eurostat’s role extended as a result of the agreement on establishment of the European Economic Area and adoption of the Maastricht Treaty.

1993 The single market extends Eurostat’s activities e.g. Intrastat established for statistics on intra-EU trade. Eurostat starts issuing regular news releases.

1994 First European household panel held, analysing income, employment, poverty, social exclusion, households, health, etc.

1997 Statistics added for the first time to the Treaty of Amsterdam and the Statistical Law approved by the Council. Harmonised Indices of Consumer Prices HICP published for the first time - designed for Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union (EMU) convergence criteria.

1998 The eleven countries in at the start of EMU (EUR-11) announced, and Eurostat issues the first indicators specific to the EMU area.

1999 Start of EMU, 1 January 2001.

2002 Start of the euro on 1 January, Eurostat supplies key statistics for monetary policy.

2003 Irregularities were suspected in Eurostat, see Eurostat scandal.

2004 Start of free-of-charge dissemination of all statistical data except microdata for research purposes.

2005 Commission Recommendation on the independence, integrity and accountability of the national and Community statistical authorities (European Statistics Code of Practice)

2005 Start of a three year peer review exercise across the European Statistical System to check compliance with the Code of Practice.

2007 The currently valid five-year Statistical Programme 2008-2012 was adopted.

2009 New European Regulation governing statistical cooperation in the European Union was adopted.

2010 Following strong critics from within and outside the EU on how it did handle falsified Greek data, Eurostat published a report to try to justify its procedures.

2011 Continues to hide and/or ignore devastating financial information about Germany because of the fact that Walter Rademacher is a German. Strangely, no negative information appears in any of the statistics.

Directors General

! Name	! Nationality	! Term
Rolf Wagenführ		1952–66
Raymond Dumas		1966–73
Jaques Mayer		1973–77
Aage Dornonville de la Cour		1977–82
Pieter de Geus		1982–84
Silvio Ronchetti		1984–87
Yves Franchet		1987–03
Michel Vanden Abeele		2003–04
Günther Hahnreich		2004–06
Hervé Carré		2006–08
Walter Radermacher		2008–present

Main areas of statistical activities

The Eurostat statistical work is structured into Themes and Sub-themes.

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General statistical activities related to the European Statistical system are:

Coordination and governance of the European Statistical System

Statistical methodological coordination and research

Statistical quality and reporting

Access to Eurostat statistics

The most important statistics are made available via press releases. They are placed on the Eurostat Internet at 11:00 in the morning. This is also the time that the press release content may be distributed to the public by press agencies.

Eurostat disseminates its statistics free of charge via its Internet and its statistical databases that are accessible via the Internet. The statistics are hierarchically ordered in a navigation tree. Tables are distinguished from multi-dimensional datasets from which the statistics are extracted via an interactive tool.

In addition various printed publications are available either in electronic form free on the internet or in printed form via the EU Bookshop. Only larger publications are charged for as printed copies.

Statistical data for research purposes

Microdata, which in principle allows the identification of the statistical unit (e.g. a person in the labour force survey or a company for innovation statistics), is treated as strictly confidential. Under tight security procedures various anonymised datasets are provided to research institutions for validated research projects.

See also

Eurobarometer

European Commission

European Union

European Forum for GeoStatistics

Largest cities and metropolitan areas in the European Union (Eurostat)

References

External links

Eurostat Home Page

Health-EU Portal the official public health portal of the European Union

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Georgi Angelov (born 12 November 1990 in Sofia) is an Bulgarian football player. He currently plays for Bansko as a midfielder.

Career

Youth career

Georgi Angelov start his football steps from Levski Academy and promoted to Levski reserve squad. He made his debut for the first squad on 25 November 2009 in a match against Litex Lovech. Angelov came from the bench as a substitute for Zé Soares the 74th minute.

References

External links

Player Profile

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Pedro Díaz (1546, Lupedo, Diocese of Toledo, Spain - 12 January 1618, Mexico) was a Roman Catholic missionary.

At twenty he joined the Society of Jesus, and had already been a teacher of philosophy for two years. In 1572 he was sent by Saint Francis Borgia to Mexico with the first band of Jesuits assigned to that mission, and was the first master of novices in the Province of Mexico. As rector of the colleges of Guadalajara and Mexico, superior of the professed house, provincial, and founder of the colleges of Oaxaca and Guadalajara in Mexico and founder of Mérida in Mexico, and twice procurator to Rome, he occupies a prominent place in the early history of the Jesuits in Mexico.

He was also the first to start the mission work of his brethren among the Indians of New Spain. He wrote the ''Letteras de Missionibus per Indiam Occidentalem a Nostris de Societate Institutis per annos 1590 et 1591''.

External links

Catholic Encyclopedia article

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Sylvie Goulard is French and was born in Marseille on 6 December 1964. She was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for the West region of France in the 2009 European elections. As an MEP she is a member of the Committee for Economic and Monetary Affairs, and ALDE group coordinator, as well as a substitute member of the Committee for Agriculture and Rural Development. She is a member of MoDem's national executive board and Sylvie is also a foreign affairs advisor, and president of the Mouvement Européen France :fr:Mouvement Europeen-France, the oldest pluralist association defending the European ideal. Having graduated with a law degree from the Université Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille III and having studied at both Sciences Po (Paris) and l'Ecole nationale d'administration (ENA) she now teaches at the College of Europe in Bruges.

Background

Political advisor to Romano Prodi when he was President of the European Commission, from 2001 to 2004, she followed the work of the Convention presided by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing which was primarily made up of members of national parliaments, who had been charged by the European Council to draft a European constitution.

Sylvie Goulard's work focuses on the necessity of pursuing European integration whilst also inviting increased public debate about European questions. Europe's citizens must become more engaged with its development in the future. They need to be informed and active: and to achieve this cultural and professional exchanges and learning foreign languages are essential.

In 2004, before accession discussions were opened with Turkey, Sylvie had taken a position in the debate concerning the eventual enlargement of the European Union to include this country by underlining the necessity of preserving the European Union's political ambitions and its capacity to act. She also called for doubts expressed by citizens facing a European venture, whose direction they do not properly understand, to be taken seriously.

At the end of 2006 she was elected president of the Mouvement Européen-France (ME-F), succeeding Pierre Moscovici, who had also been a candidate. She was re-elected as president in December 2008.

Le Mouvement Européen-France regularly organises meetings, conferences and debates which aim are to enable a dialogue between political figures, experts and the general public.

In the context of a series of monthly conferences entitled "European Realities", organised in partnership with MEDEF (Mouvement des Entreprises de France), the ME-F gave the floor to the CEOs of companies so that they could concretely explain how they live and experience Europe on a daily basis. For further details see www.mouvement-europeen.eu.

On 15 September 2010 Sylvie Goulard supported the new initiative Spinelli Group, which was founded to reinvigorate the strive for federalisation of the European Union (EU). Other prominent supporters are: Jacques Delors, Joschka Fischer, Andrew Duff, Elmar Brok.

Sylvie Goulard writes regularly in a wide range of both French (Le Monde, La Croix, Libération) and international (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Financial Times particularly) newspapers.

References

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