The Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat) is the statistical arm of the European Commission, producing data for the European Union and promoting harmonisation of statistical methods across the member states. The Maastricht Treaty introduced the concept of citizenship of the European Union. ... Cultural cooperation in the European Union has become a community competency since its inclusion in 1992 in the Maastricht Treaty. ... The European Union has over 457 million inhabitants and currently has 25 member states. ... The European Union (EU) was originally created by the six founding states in 1952, but has grown to its current size of 25 member states. ... Foreign relations of the European Union Foreign relations of Austria Foreign relations of Belgium Foreign relations of Cyprus Foreign relations of the Czech Republic Foreign relations of Denmark Foreign relations of Estonia Foreign relations of Finland Foreign relations of France Foreign relations of Germany Foreign relations of Greece Foreign relations... This is the history of the European Union. ... The European Union or EU is a supranational and intergovernmental union of 25 European states. ... Statistics in the European Union are collected by Eurostat. ... For Wikipedia statistics, see m:Statistics Statistics is the science and practice of developing human knowledge through the use of empirical data expressed in quantitative form. ... The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities) is the executive body of the European Union. ...

Two of its particularly significant roles are producing macroeconomic data which helps guide the European Central Bank in its monetary policy for the euro, and its regional data and classification (NUTS) which guide the EU's structural policies. Macroeconomics is the study of the entire economy in terms of the total amount of goods and services produced, total income earned, the level of employment of productive resources, and the general behavior of prices. ... The ECB building in Frankfurt The European Central Bank (ECB) (French: Banque Centrale Européenne, German: Europäische Zentralbank, Greek: Ευρωπαϊκή Κεντρική Τράπεζα) is one of the worlds largest central banks, being in charge of monetary policy for the European Unions official currency, the euro, which is used by over 300... The euro (currency sign: €; banking code: EUR) is the official currency of the European Union and single currency for over 300 million Europeans in the following twelve European Union member states: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain; collectively also known as the... The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) is a geocode standard for referencing the administrative division of countries for statistical purposes. ...

Eurostat is a General Service Directorate-General. Its current Director-General is Günther Hanreich. His predecessor, Michel Vanden Abeele, revealed in 2004 that the Greek government finance statistics, the basis of which the European institutions accepted Greece to join the Euro zone, had been massively falsified by Greece [1]. The term General Service refers to a collection of Directorate-Generals and Services within the European Commission that provide services to the policy-making DGs. ... In the European Union, a Directorate-General covers a specific policy area, and is headed by a Commissioner and a Director-General. ... Director-general is the professional head of a UK Executive Agency which contains other agencies headed by directors. ... Context According to the European regulations, all EU Member States have to compile government accounts, notably the government deficit and debt. ...

See also

• European Union
• European Commission
• Accountability in the European Union
• Eurobarometer

The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities) is the executive body of the European Union. ... As with all public budgets, the EUs Community budget is also at risk of maladministration. ... Eurobarometer is a survey performed by Public Opinion Analysis sector of the European Commission since 1973. ...

External links

• Eurostat
• Responsibility and guilt in the Eurostat scandal - MEP Jens-Peter Bonde on the approval of the EU's accounts

	European Commission Directorates-General
Internal policy: Agriculture | Competition | Economic and Financial Affairs | Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities | Enterprise and Industry | Environment | Fisheries and Maritime Affairs | Health and Consumer Protection | Information Society and Media | Internal Market and Services | Joint Research Centre | Justice, Freedom and Security | Regional Policy | Research | Taxation and Customs Union | Transport and Energy
External policy: External Relations | Development | Enlargement | Trade | EuropeAid | ECHO Jens-Peter Bonde Jens-Peter Bonde (born on 27 March 1948 in Åbenrå) is a Danish politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Junibevægelsen, Chairman of the Independence and Democracy and sits on the European Parliaments Committee on Constitutional Affairs. ... Image File history File links European_flag. ... The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities) is the executive body of the European Union. ... In the European Union, a Directorate-General covers a specific policy area, and is headed by a Commissioner and a Director-General. ... Image File history File links European_flag. ... The Directorate-General for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs or DG FISH is a department of the European Commission, responsible for the policy area of fisheries, the Law of the Sea and Maritime Affairs. ... EU Directorate General Information Society and Media or DG Infso. The current Commissioner for Information Society and Media is Viviane Reding (Luxembourg) and the Director-General is Fabio Colasanti. ... // Mission The mission of the JRC is to provide customer-driven scientific and technical support for the conception, development, implementation and monitoring of EU policies. ... // Mission The Directorate General’s mission is evolving as work on the European Research Area (ERA) continues. ... The Directorate-General for Energy and Transport (DG TREN) , in operation since 1 January 2000, was created by merging the Directorate-General for Transport and the Directorate-General for Energy. ... The Directorate-General for the External Relations (DG RELEX) is a department of the European Commission, responsible for the external policy. ... European Community Humanitarian aid Office (ECHO) is the European Commissions department for humanitarian aid. ...
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