STATISTICS: EUROSTAT PUBLISHES YEARBOOK 2002.

Now in its seventh edition, the Eurostat Yearbook, published on May 27, provides a wealth of harmonised and comparable data on the European Union, the Euro-zone and the EU Member States, with additional statistics for major partner nations (members of the European Economic Area, or the European Free Trade Association, the United States and Japan). The candidate countries also receive special attention in this 2002 edition. It covers the 1990 to 2000 period in a whole host of areas presented in six chapters: European citizens, their features and lifestyles, natural resources and environmental protection, the EU's economic and financial health, business activity in Europe, the EU's international trade, basic statistics on the would-be EU member countries.Eurostat stresses the wide variety of themes under review go someway to providing an...