ECSC STATISTICS
June 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE DECLINE in the European Union's use and production of coal over the past 50 years has been documented in a detailed paper by EU statistical agency Eurostat to mark the end of the European Coal and Steel Community. It shows that in 1962, the total inland consumption of coal in the original six EU members, (Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg), barely exceeded the 1999 total for the current 15 Member States, (253.7 million tonnes, compared with 248.2 million).Predictably, production took a steeper decline, with the ...
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