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Join our host, Jonathan Elliott, as he sits down with John Verrinder, head of the unit that deals with national accounts methodology and statistical indicators at Eurostat, and Birgit Schmeitzner, spokesperson for the European Commission Representation in Germany. The importance of data and statistics in today’s fast-media environment is also discussed. You will hear about how it evolved from 2007, when it first came out, to the present, and how statistics changed to meet current needs. In this episode, we will explore what the publication is about, what data it covers, and its role as an entry point into a broader range of statistics. In the latest episode of the Eurostat podcast series Stats in a Wrap, we will dive into one of our annual publications: Key figures on Europe.

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