EUROSTAT REFORM
January 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Union's troubled statistical agency Eurostat is planning an increase the amount of work tackled in house rather than buying in research from outside contractors, the strategy leading to the ongoing accounting scandal. Eurostat director Michel Vanden Abeele told EU news wire Eupolitix: "We need to tighten our belt. We all prefer to produce statistics than manage small contracts." He added that the agency had slashed the amount of outside seminars attended by EU statisticians by 35 per cent. Meanwhile, a European Parliament budgetary ...
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