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50-770: Eurostat operates pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 223/2009. Since the swearing in of the von der Leyen Commission in December 2019, Eurostat is allocated to the portfolio of the European Commissioner for the Economy , Paolo Gentiloni . The Director-General of Eurostat is Mariana Kotzeva , former Deputy Director-General of Eurostat and President of the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria . The Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of 11 March 2009 on European statistics establishes

100-841: A British constitutional delay which resulted in Brexit being delivered in 2020 rather than the initially planned 2019. The concept of the EU 28 has been used since 1 January 2014, also according to the Eurostat methodological manual on city statistics, 2017 edition. Local data are also computed at the NUTS level. Eurostat is also engaged in cooperation with third countries through the European Statistical System, Enlargement Policy, and European Neighbourhood Policy. In 2021, European Statistical System includes 4 EFTA countries, that

150-405: A conflict of interests for any of the candidates for commissioners. The United Kingdom, which had been expected to leave the EU on 31 October 2019, did not nominate a candidate for commissioner. It was reported by Euractiv on 26 September 2019 that commissioners-designate László Trócsányi of Hungary (Neighbourhood and Enlargement) and Rovana Plumb of Romania (Transport) will be questioned by

200-489: A fully electronical way of publishing, Statistics Explained, like Misplaced Pages based on Mediawiki open source software and with a largely similar structure and navigation. Statistics Explained is not only a dissemination format, however, but also a wiki working platform for producing flagship publications like the Eurostat Yearbook. Microdata, which in principle allows the identification of the statistical unit (e.g.,

250-416: A gross area of approximately 180,000 m (1,900,000 sq ft), and consists of two parallel galleries either side of a central atrium spanned by a glass and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) canopy roof. The first and second storeys comprise the shopping mall area, whilst those storeys above are dedicated to office space. Bridges, which span the central atrium, above the shopping levels, connect

300-835: A half-way scenario which they see as the likeliest. In two of these three scenarios, the S&;D group, which for decades was the pillar of the Grand coalition in Europe, no longer has a majority of MEPs supporting the Commission. Even before Von der Leyen's confirmation, she pledged to renominate Frans Timmermans , the spitzenkandidat of the Party of European Socialists as the First Vice President. Margrethe Vestager , one of

350-402: A new candidate, in which case a new hearing would take place for a new candidate. Coordinators could also decide to hold additional hearing of 1.5 hours or demand additional written answers. If there were more committees hearing one candidate, all committees would give a joint evaluation. The first round of hearings took place from 30 September until 8 October 2019, followed by the evaluation by

400-601: A percentage of the EU average The Eurostat statistical work is structured into Themes and Sub-themes. General statistical activities related to the European Statistical system are: Currently, and since Brexit on February the first 2020, Eurostat data are aggregated at the EU-27 level, known as EU-27. Before Brexit Eurostat data was aggregated at the EU-28 level, known as EU-28. Since Brexit occurred on February

450-562: A person in the labour force survey or a company for innovation statistics), is treated as strictly confidential. Under tight security procedures various anonymised datasets are provided to research institutions for validated research projects. Eurostat has been based in the Joseph Bech building , in the northeast of the Kirchberg quarter of Luxembourg City , since the building was opened in 1998. The Directorate-General will relocate to

500-478: Is 3 EEA countries and Switzerland. EU Enlargement Policy includes "candidate countries" in the process of joining the EU and other potential candidates. In 2021, European Neighbourhood Policy covers 16 countries such as 6 ENP-East countries — Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine — and 10 ENP-South countries — Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria and Tunisia. The trade and cooperation agreement between

550-591: Is a mixed-use building complex in northeastern Kirchberg , Luxembourg City , Luxembourg containing both an office complex and shopping mall, with their principal tenants respectively being the European Commission 's statistical office, Eurostat , and an Auchan hypermarket . Those parts of the building dedicated to office use are collectively referred to as the " Joseph Bech building ", after European Union (EU) pioneer and former Luxembourg prime minister, Joseph Bech . The complex's shopping gallery

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600-808: Is referred to as the " Kirchberg Shopping Centre ". Construction work on the Kirchberg District Centre began in October 1993, with those parts of the building related to the shopping mall completed in 1996, and the offices completed in September 1998. The total cost of the project was approximately 300 million euros. The project's chief architect was Martin Lammar of local architectural firm Atelier A+U, in partnership with Lars Iwdal of Swedish architectural firm arkitektbyrån ab, and Murray Church of Hochtief Luxembourg. Between 1999 and 2001,

650-531: Is to last until the formation of the forthcoming Second Von der Leyen Commission . It consists of one commissioner from each of the member states of the European Union – including Ursula von der Leyen , its president , who is from Germany . The commission was scheduled to take office on 1 November 2019; however, the French, Hungarian and Romanian commissioner-candidates lost their confirmation votes by

700-649: The European Parliament in early October 2019, so new commissioners had to be selected from those three member states by the President-elect and subsequently confirmed by the Parliament. This process took place in November 2019 and the Commission eventually took office in its entirety on 1 December 2019. Following the example of the 2014 European Election , in advance of the 2019 elections

750-586: The Jean Monnet 2 building , in the Kirchberg's European district, following the completion of the first phase of the building, expected in February 2023. 49°38′00″N 6°10′11″E  /  49.633320°N 6.169780°E  / 49.633320; 6.169780 Von der Leyen Commission The von der Leyen Commission is the current European Commission , in office since 1 December 2019 and

800-450: The BCPR (Conference of Presidents) on 15 October 2019. If any of the candidates would be rejected by the responsible committee, new hearings would take place on 14 and 15 October 2019, followed by BCPR evaluation on 16 October 2019. BCPR closed hearings process on 17 October 2019. Before the hearings begin, Committee on Legal Affairs, on 19 September 2019, examined if there was a possibility of

850-771: The Bulgarian Embassy in Belgium during the meeting of the European Council. Naming Timmermans President of the European Commission would have been a part of the so-called Osaka deal , a plan that was formed by several EU leaders ( Emmanuel Macron , Angela Merkel , Giuseppe Conte , Donald Tusk , Mark Rutte , and Pedro Sánchez ) during the 2019 G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan. However, the opposition from Visegrad Four, now joined by Croatia and Italy,

900-547: The ECR voted in favour. The Greens/EFA abstained. The responsible committee held a 3-hour hearing of the Commissioner-designate to examine the candidate's competence and suitability. Committee decided if candidate is suitable to become a European Commissioner and if their knowledge of the portfolio is sufficient. After each hearing, the committee voted on the candidate. Decisions of the committee were first taken by

950-1008: The EU. According to several media reports hearings before the European Parliament committees could be tough for: Coordinators of political groups in the responsible committees decided that additional written answers will be requested by and potentially additional hearing of 1.5 hours should be held for: ( EPP – CDU ) ( PES – SMER-SD ) ( ALDE – B ) ( EPP – V ) ( PES – PSOE ) ( EPP – ND ) ( ALDE – ANO ) ( EPP – HDZ ) ( EPP – CDA ) ( EPP – ÖVP ) ( EPP – GERB ) ( PES – LSAP ) ( PES – PD ) ( ECR – PiS ) ( ALDE – Ind. ) ( PES – PS ) ( EPP – DISY ) ( ALDE – MR ) ( PES – PL ) ( PES – S ) ( ALDE – Ind. ) ( EPP – PNL ) ( EPP – Ind. ) Kirchberg District Centre The Kirchberg District Centre ( French : Centre de Quartier Kirchberg ; German : Stadtteilzentrum Kirchberg )

1000-668: The European Council Donald Tusk asked von der Leyen to give her consent on appointing Josep Borrell of Spain as the next EU High Representative. Consent was given on 26 July 2019, following which the European Council officially appointed Borrell as the next High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on 5 August 2019. The commission was approved by the European Parliament on 27 November 2019, receiving 461 votes, with 157 against and 89 abstentions. EPP, S&D, Renew Europe and half of

1050-401: The European Council ignored the so-called spitzenkandidat system when choosing her for the position. On 16 July 2019, the European Parliament took a vote on the proposal by the European Council and elected Von der Leyen with 383 votes (374 votes needed). Before the vote, Von der Leyen had received the support of three largest political groups in the Parliament (EPP, S&D and RE); during

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1100-567: The European Parliament Legal Affairs Committee about their declarations of interests due to potential conflict of interests and "discrepancies in property statements". Other commissioners-designate were approved by the committee, including Didier Reynders of Belgium (Justice) and Sylvie Goulard of France (Internal Market) who are under investigation by respective national authorities due to corruption allegations or misuse of EU money, according to one of

1150-696: The European People's Party claimed that the position of the President of the European Commission should be given to them and wanted their leading candidate Manfred Weber for the job. However, Weber faced strong opposition from the liberal-leaning French President Emmanuel Macron and the ALDE, and from the Party of European Socialists (PES) as well; opposition was driven by Weber's lack of experience, since he had only previously served as MEP and never held any governmental position. The PES strongly supported

1200-615: The European Union and the United Kingdom — since 1 January 2021 — includes a provision on statistical cooperation that foresees the establishment of a specific future arrangement. The most important statistics are made available via press releases. They are placed on the Eurostat website at 11:00 in the morning. This is also the time that the press release content may be distributed to the public by press agencies. Eurostat disseminates its statistics free of charge via its Internet and its statistical databases that are accessible via

1250-565: The Internet. The statistics are hierarchically ordered in a navigation tree. Tables are distinguished from multi-dimensional datasets from which the statistics are extracted via an interactive tool. In addition various printed publications are available either in electronic form free on the internet or in printed form via the EU Bookshop. Only larger publications are charged for as printed copies. Since September 2009 Eurostat has pioneered

1300-478: The Joseph Bech building, was, between 2004 and 2018, part of a closed-end real estate fund owned by Commerz Real before being sold to an anonymous buyer. Since the building opened in 1998, the principal tenant of the Joseph Bech building has been the European Commission , which uses the building to house its statistics body, Eurostat . This arrangement was made due to the lack of office space provided for by

1350-568: The MEPs because the Committee does not have the authority to question candidates beyond facts stated in the declarations od interests. Euractiv also reports that Janusz Wojciechowski of Poland (Agriculture) might as well be questioned by the committee. Euractiv reported later that day that Rovana Plumb of Romania was rejected as a European Commissioner-designate by 10 votes to 6 (with 2 abstentions). Hungarian Commissioner-designate László Trócsányi

1400-515: The S&D group, including the German Social Democratic Party , which publicly opposed Von der Leyen because of her work as German Defence Minister. • [REDACTED] ALDE (108) • [REDACTED] PiS - SP (26) • [REDACTED] M5S (14) • [REDACTED] GUE/NGL • [REDACTED] Brexit (29) Le Grand Continent published a detailed analysis of the secret ballot. The authors numbered

1450-622: The building is stepped, with the pedestrian entrance to the shopping mall from Avenue John F Kennedy being raised from street level, and the shopping mall only occupying the second storey towards Circuit de la Foire Internationale. The Kirchberg District Centre is situated in the Kiem district of the Luxembourg City quarter of Kirchberg . To the north is the country's largest cinema multiplex, Kinepolis Kirchberg and Luxembourg's national exhibition centre , "Luxexpo The Box". Located between

1500-436: The building's car parking facilities were extended. Between April 2008 and July 2009 a 5.13 million euro a new food court was added to the shopping mall in work carried out by local construction firm CBL, utilising a design by architectural firm Moreno Architecture & Associates. Those parts of the building corresponding to the shopping mall were acquired by French retail group Auchan . An Auchan hypermarket, occupying

1550-511: The candidature of Frans Timmermans , who also had support from most of the ALDE members of the European Council. ( Andrej Babiš , then Czech Prime Minister, is a member of the ALDE but also of the Visegrad Four , which strongly opposed Timmermans because of his support for migration quotas and inability to reach compromises. ) The ALDE Party wanted to see Margrethe Vestager taking the top Commission job. The first European Council meeting

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1600-542: The complex and Circuit de la Foire Internationale is the Kubik building, a cube-shaped structure, currently occupied by the European Stability Mechanism . The complex's official address, and principal street entrance for its office space is given as 5 rue Alphose Weicker, with the street forming the southern border of the building. However, the public entrances to the shopping mall are located to

1650-470: The coordinators of the EP political groups, at this point each candidate needed support of 2/3 of coordinators, if support was reached, the candidate was confirmed. If such support was not reached, then committee as a whole took a vote on a Commissioner-designate, where a candidate needed the support of the majority of committee members. If candidate was rejected by the committee as well, President-elect could propose

1700-600: The council's vote on the proposal. Nevertheless, all other European Council members voted in favor, and she was nominated as the next President of the European Commission. Von der Leyen, a member of the European People's Party (EPP), was selected and proposed to the European Parliament by the European Council on 3 July 2019 following three days of negotiations between leaders of the member states. Von der Leyen faced many critics, especially among MEPs, since

1750-486: The debate the conservative Polish party Law and Justice with 24 MEPs and the Italian Five Stars Movement (M5S) with 14 MEPs declared their support. Based on the result of the vote, nearly 100 MEPs of the unofficial grand coalition EPP-S&D-RE did not vote for Von der Leyen. Based on the debate and public announcements of the MEPs, most of the MEPs voting against von der Leyen probably came from

1800-554: The first 2020, data has to be computed for the EU-27 because by definition Brexit makes the UK a third country to the EU. Nonetheless, to avoid confusion with the previous EU-27 group of 27 member states — which was used in the series of statistical data before the accession of member state number 28 — another name for the current EU 27 without the UK is defined as EU27_2019 in February 2019 and EU27_2020 since March 2020 according to Eurostat. The name changed from EU27_2019 to EU27_2020 due to

1850-581: The institution's then main Luxembourg complex, the Jean Monnet building. The European Commission plans to vacate the building and the end of its current lease in 2023, with it relocating staff to the Jean Monnet 2 building , currently under construction in Kirchberg's European district. The complex's main structure is an elongated five-story building, stretching from Avenue John F Kennedy to Circuit de la Foire Internationale. The main structure has

1900-538: The leading candidates of the Alliance of Liberal and Democrats for Europe Party (ALDE), was chosen as vice president as well, having de facto equal position to that of Timmermans. Von der Leyen requested that member states each propose two candidates, a man and a woman, so it would be easier to form a gender-balanced commission. France's Thierry Breton was the last candidate to be designated on 24 October 2019 by Emmanuel Macron . Following her election, President of

1950-526: The legal framework for the European statistics. The amending Regulation (EU) 2015/759 of 29 April 2015 clarifies that heads of NSIs coordinate national level activities for European statistics and decide on processes, methods, standards and procedures of their respective statistics. Previous Eurostat regulations were a Decision on Eurostat (2012/504/EU), and the earlier Decision on Eurostat (97/281/EC). [REDACTED] European regions by GDP, expressed as

2000-630: The main European political parties named so-called spitzenkandidaten, or leading candidates, who were the parties' candidates to become the next president of the European Commission. All of the parties named at least one candidate; some named two, while the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party (ALDE), which officially opposed the system of spitzenkandidaten, introduced "Team Europe," which consisted of several high-ranking European politicians. However, other parties perceived those candidates, especially Margrethe Vestager of Denmark, as leading candidates. After winning 2019 European election ,

2050-566: The personal ambitions of leaders. When Ursula von der Leyen (EPP)'s name emerged as a potential candidate, it was a surprise and she faced many critics, mainly because she had not been a spitzenkandidat. The German Social Democratic Party, part of the German government coalition, opposed von der Leyen due to her work as minister of defence, which resulted in the German Chancellor Angela Merkel 's abstention during

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2100-494: The public pledges of national delegations and individual MEPs as amounting to 410, which is 27 more than what von der Leyen ultimately received. To explain the difference, they suggested three scenarios: one in which the support of delegations from the S&D group (some for, some against, some equivocal) was lower than admitted, another in which MEPs from the populist parties in government (Poland's PiS, Hungary's Fidesz and Italy's M5S) were claiming support only to gain leverage, and

2150-458: The two parallel office spaces. Attached to the main structure, along its northern edge, facing rue Carlo Hemmer, are four identical parallel five-storey wings used as office space. Between the two wings closest to Circuit de la Foire Internationale lies a later extension to the shopping mall's second storey, in the form of a single-storey food court, adding 2,400 m (7,900 ft) of floor space. A cuboid five-storey office structure attached to

2200-675: The two storeys in the northeast of the shopping gallery, was installed as an anchor store . The retailer estimated a catchment area of 25 kilometres. The store, and the wider shopping mall, opened to the public on 26 November 1996. Martin Draber, then director of Auchan Kirchberg, said the primary commercial rationale for its opening was to "recover part of the 8 billion Luxembourg francs " spent annually by Luxembourg consumers outside of its borders, rather than to directly compete with local businesses. The shopping mall currently contains 66 shops and 16 restaurants. The complex's office space, known as

2250-413: The wing closest to John F Kennedy faces out onto the road. The Kirchberg District Centre is steel framed, with approximately 12,000 tonnes of steel used in the initial construction. Much of the building infrastructure and the parking garage , with 3,500 parking spaces, are located in the three basement levels of the building. Due to the increased terrain height of Circuit de la Foire Internationale,

2300-409: Was asked to decide on both rejected candidates again and on 30 September 2019 JURI again rejected both of the candidates, Plumb with 13 votes to 7 and Trócsányi with 12 votes to 9. Following the vote, President-elect Von der Leyen asked the national governments of Romania and Hungary to propose new candidates. Hungary already proposed a new candidate Olivér Várhelyi , its Permanent Representative to

2350-481: Was held on 20 and 21 June 2019, bringing no decision on distribution of EU top jobs. President Donald Tusk summoned leaders again for a special meeting that lasted from 30 June until 2 July 2019. Over three days of negotiations, the EPP gave up on Weber becoming the President of the commission; it seemed that Timmermans might be nominated, especially after he met with Bulgarian Prime Minister and EPP member Boyko Borisov at

2400-523: Was rejected on 26 September as well by 11 votes to 9 due to his personal finances in connection with his law firm, he founded before becoming Minister of Justice and due to concerns about "connections to Russia" in relation to extradition of Russian suspects to Russia. It is up to the President-elect Ursula von der Leyen to take further decisions on candidates, while JURI approval is a necessary precondition for hearings to take place. This

2450-513: Was still strong, and Timmermans could not win a Council majority. Other names mentioned during the negotiations included Michel Barnier , Kristalina Georgieva and Andrej Plenković ; it became clear after the Council ended that Plenković's name had been introduced by Commission Secretary-General Martin Selmayr , who is Plenković's close friend. The candidature was rejected by Macron, who opposed

2500-504: Was the first time that candidates have been rejected by the JURI Committee. Following the JURI Committee decision to reject László Trócsányi , he published a statement on his Twitter account later that day, stating that he will take all legal steps against the decision. This could have an impact on the process of formation of the new European Commission which is due to take office on 1 November 2019. The Legal Affairs Committee

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