About 75 thousand asylum seekers were granted protection status in the EU Member States in 2008. This represents more than one-third of the world-wide decisions granting protection, and makes the EU the region with the highest number of asylum seekers who received a protection status. The majori...
The number of people who acquired citizenship in one of the EU Member States rose to 810 thousand in 2010, a 4% increase with respect to 2009. This is the first time that the total number of acquisitions in the EU exceeds 0.8 million....
Environmental taxes increase the relative cost and the prices of activities and products harmful for the environment. Consequently, environmental taxes provide incentives to reduce the pressures on the environment. In this way, environmental taxes can help in implementing the 'polluter-pays' pri...
This SIF presents data on taxes and social contributions collected in the European Union, as provided to Eurostat in the ESA95 transmission table 9 ('Detailed Tax and Social Contribution Receipts by Type of Tax and Social Contribution and Receiving Sub-Sector'). It briefly analyses the level and...
In 2009, the highest price level for investment among the EU Member States was observed in Denmark at 26% above the EU average, while in the cheapest Member State, Romania, the price level was 38% below the EU average. These are the main findings of the results of two price surveys carried out i...
The publication presents the different stages in venture capital investments - early stage and expansion and replacement stage- and their situation in different parts of the world. After a boom in 2000, venture capital investments collapsed both in the United States and in Europe, waiting 2005 t...
This Statistics in Focus is part of a series of country-specific publications on the results of the Farm Structure Survey (FSS) 2007. It provides a brief but nevertheless comprehensive insight into the farm structure in Slovakia. 69 000 agricultural holdings were recorded in Slovakia in the 2007...
Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) represent one of the key sectors of our present-day economy. As this sector involves technological inventions and is also known as being highly competitive, patents play a major role. This publication presents a brief analysis of ICT patent activ...
This Statistics in Focus is part of a series of country-specific publications on the results of the Farm Structure Survey (FSS) 2005. It provides a brief but nevertheless comprehensive insight into the farm structure in the Slovak Republic. A similar publication was issued in March 2005 presenti...
This publication shows the main characteristics of the services sector in the European Union. Among other aspects, it describes the structural changes in the EU economy and the increasing importance of the services sector, which is seen as one of the key engines of economic growth and job creati...