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The availability of thorough, accessible, interactive and harmonised information is essential when authorities need to act and/or react quickly in areas related to the environment. The European Union's adoption, in [...]

The European Union's new trade strategy, adopted on 9 November by the College of Commissioners, threatens to get tough on unfair trade practices abroad with retaliatory measures against countries like [...]

According to the latest estimates, published by Eurostat on 22 April, the EU's external current account recorded a deficit of 2.8 billion in the fourth quarter of 2007, compared with [...]

In December 2007, compared with November 2007, the industrial producer price index rose by 0.1% in the eurozone and by 0.2% in the EU27. In November, prices increased by 0.9% [...]

Around half of men in Greece, Austria and Germany and nearly a quarter of Maltese and British men are overweight. The highest percentages of obese women are to be found [...]

Seasonally adjusted industrial production in the EU fell by 0.6% in September after an increase of 1.2% in August and a decrease of 0.3% in July. In September 2006, compared [...]

The eurozone industrial producer price index rose by 0.1% in August 2006 compared with July 2006, while EU25 prices increased by 0.2%. In July, prices gained 0.7% in the eurozone [...]

According to a quarterly Eurostat publicationpresenting the main results of the European Union Labour Force Survey for all EU member states, the employment rate in the EU25 increased by 0.4 [...]

Natural gas consumption in the EU amounted to 492.5 billion m3 (Gm3) in 2005, an increase of 1.9% on 2004 figures. The main factor explaining the growing use of natural [...]

On October 13, Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities released its new edition of the Statistical Yearbook of the EU Region, covering the 254 regions of the 25 [...]

However, there were significant differences between the EU15 where inflows fell 40% to $196 billion - and the ten new member states where they rose 69% to $20 billion. Germany, [...]

The European Commission hailed on August 10 the work of the networks created among EU member states and the Commissions own research services in studying forest fires. Although 2005 has [...]

Hourly labour costs in the EU went up by 2.4% in nominal terms in the third quarter of 2004 compared to the same period in the previous year, and 2.8% [...]

The Euro-zone's industrial producer price index rose by 0.2% and in the EU by 0.4% in September, 2004, compared to the previous month, Eurostat said November 4. In August 2004, [...]

Seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU-25 fell by 0.5% in August this year,compared to July 2004, according to figures published on October 19 by Eurostat, the EU's Statistics Office. The [...]

According to a report released on June 2 by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, the rate of unemployment in the Euro-zone, corrected for seasonal variations, stood at [...]

Eurostat, the EU's Statistical Office, published on March 11 a wide-ranging compilation of economic and social indicators for an EU of 25 members to mark the EU's pending enlargement on [...]

Eurostat, the EU's Statistical Office, published regional GDP figures for the twenty-five-member European Union on February 18. This data was used in drafting the European Commission's Third Report on Economic [...]

Industrial production in the EU rose by 0.2% in December 2003 compared to the previous month, according to Eurostat. It had fallen by 0.2% in November, after a rise of [...]

Between October 2002 and October 2003, the volume of retail trade remained unchanged in the Euro-zone (all fifteen EU Member States except for Denmark, Sweden and the United Kingdom) and [...]

Although the populations of all the Member States increased in 2003, the changes were notably different. The largest increases were in Ireland (+15.3e), Spain (+7.2e) and Portugal (+6.9e), and the [...]

Registrations of new passenger cars were up 4.4% in Western Europe during September compared with the same month of 2002. Ten of the fifteen EU Member States posted positive growth [...]

Receiving countries. The UK is probably the country where most asylum applications are lodged in Europe, although this cannot be confirmed so far this year as its statistics for July [...]

In August, the lowest rates were recorded in Luxembourg (3.8%), the Netherlands (4.1% in July), in Austria (4.5%) and Ireland (4.7%). With a figure of 11.4%, Spain continues to have [...]

Grain production in the EU will slump over 23 million tonnes in the 2003 harvest, down to 186 million tonnes in all on last year, according to cereal experts at [...]

Seasonally-adjusted unemployment in the EU was 8.1% in April, up slightly from 8.0% in March and 7.6% in April 2002. In the Euro-zone, the jobless rate remained stable at 8.8% [...]

Output in the building sector contracted in the EU in 2002, according to Eurostat's latest official statistics. The fourth quarter of 2002 saw a decline in output in almost all [...]

Statistics produced by Europol for 2002 show that the Member States are making more use of it. There was increase of 50% in the number of information exchanges between Europol's [...]

The high-tech industries include computers, other electrical and electronic engineering, precision instruments, aircraft and pharmaceuticals. High-tech industries are of varying importance for employment and value-added across the European Union. In [...]

Between January and February 2003, the energy sector rose by 2.1% in the EU15 and by 2.0% in the Euro-zone. Capital goods gained 0.5% and non-durable consumer goods 0.1% in [...]

The EU produces a larger number of graduates and PhDs in science and technology than the United States (2.14 million in 2000, compared to 2.07 million in the United States [...]

A total of 1,016,454 new passenger cars were registered in February 2003 in Western Europe, down 3.5% from February 2002 (-3.2% for the European Union), according to figures released on [...]

In the period 1995 to 1999, net inward migration added around 0.2% per year to the Union's population. Given that the overall annual population rise was 0.25%, that means that [...]

In November 2002 compared to the previous month, the decline in total industry is mainly due to the energy sector, where prices fell by 0.9% in the EU15 and by [...]

The European Commission said on December 19 that the total food and humanitarian aid provided by the European Union for the six most affected countries in famine-stricken Southern Africa had [...]

A Euro 2 million package of humanitarian aid was announced on December 11 for Nicaragua, Paraguay and Cuba. Nicaragua will receive Euro 0.5 million for its Autonomous North Atlantic Region [...]

Unemployment stands out as a key problem facing the ten candidate countries set to join the EU in 2004 in two new sets of data published by the EU's Statistical [...]

Annual variations. Energy rose by 0.6% in the EU and by 1.6% in the Euro-zone. These were the first year-on-year increases in this sector since August 2001. Excluding the energy [...]

In September, the industrial production index for intermediate goods declined by 0.8% in the Euro-zone and by 1.2% in the EU15. Capital goods fell by 0.6% and non-durable consumer goods [...]

Broken down by country, the figures show that all the Member States except Portugal (where the proportion of broadcast time reserved for European works is 49.5%) have far exceeded the [...]