Meanwhile, its youth unemployment levels have shot over 60%, according to Eurostat's lastest figures.
Unemployment peaked at 18.7% for February, behind only Greece and Spain, according to Eurostat.
Mr Solbes, as the commissioner in charge of Eurostat, is particularly in the firing line.
What Eurostat counts is the fees he brings in to his inner London bank.
And official figures from Eurostat showed eurozone industrial production for September down 2% from August.
Using Eurostat, I prepared a number of graphs showing how Poland and Latvia responded to the crisis.
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According to Eurostat, in 1998 the Netherlands was still only ninth among the 15 European Union countries.
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And they were counted as sovereign debt by Eurostat, the official arbiter of these matters in Europe.
Disciplinary procedures have been opened against Eurostat Director General Yves Franchet and two aides, Daniel Byk and Photius Nanopoulos.
Coincidentally with the Eurostat release, the CEPR committee has also today declared that the euro area is in recession.
Annual inflation for the 12 nations using the euro fell from 1.7% in September, the EU Eurostat agency said.
Europe's statistics agency Eurostat has recorded a provisional 2% contraction for 2012 while forecasting a 0.4% contraction for this year.
As of May 2012, 53.8% of young Greeks were unemployed, according to Eurostat, the statistics division of the European Commission.
Eurostat also revised upwards the total level of Greece's debts in 2009 to 126.8% of its GDP from 115.1% previously.
The country's deficit last year stood at 15.4% of its annual economic output, said Eurostat, the European Union's statistics office.
Eurostat figures show that seven eurozone countries are in recession Greece, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Portugal, The Netherlands and Finland.
Eurostat said that there was a fall in spending on items such as clothes and computers in the 17-nation euro bloc.
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However, the researchers tallied data (kept by Eurostat and the World Health Organization) for ten different countries, and found eye-opening distinctions.
According to Eurostat, economic growth in the 17 European countries that use euro slowed to 0.2 percent below the 0.8 analysts expected.
Figures from Eurostat estimate the number of people in the UK aged 55-to-64 will increase by 14m between 2005 and 2030.
Unemployment in the region remained at a euro-era high of 11.7%, according to figures from the European Commission's statistics agency, Eurostat.
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Greece had an unemployment rate of 21% as of December 2011, according to figures from Eurostat, the European Union statistics office.
As of May 2012, 53.8% of Greeks younger than 25 were unemployed, according to Eurostat, the statistics division of the European Commission.
According to the Eurostat data, Spain saw the biggest fall, with retail sales down 10.5% compared with the same month last year.
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It is not certain that the black accounts set up by Eurostat were used for the personal enrichment of the officials involved.
He told CNN that Europe's strength lies in the size of its economy and population of 500 million people, according to Eurostat.
The economies of both the eurozone and EU showed growth of 1.4% compared with the third quarter of 2010, according to Eurostat.
One in five Greeks was unemployed last year, according to Eurostat figures.
The data come from the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) and was published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.
Euro-zone retail sales rose more than expected in January, according to Eurostat.
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