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"Mr President, there are times when politicians might like to influence statistics – particularly at the moment. If the statistics on the economy are so bad, you might wish to take them away and dream that it is different and that this does not influence the spirit of consumers etc.
I fully agree with what everyone says about this report: that decent, true and fair statistics are an important instrument for politics and that this is an important reason to have independent statistical bodies to present these statistics.
I would also like to congratulate the rapporteur and the Commission on the proposals on this regulation. We had good cooperation with the Council to reach compromises on what we have stated in this document. It is important to have these independent bodies to have a clear contact point for the Commission in the Member States and for this European system of statistics to include the statistics code of practice, which has been elaborated by the experts, into European legislation. I think this is a good achievement and I hope that it will really work and help us to overcome the bad statistics and really try to face the recession that is coming and get clearer measures to counter it."@en1
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