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S IGMA 1/2002 Contents 1 Page 4: L L Pascal Lamy on how to get the best out of globalisation L Page 6: Erkki Liikanen on quality and speed in statistics L Page 26: Enrico Giovannini – thinking globally L Our news: Fons Theis changes horizons L Page 21: Bettina Knauth explains FATS L L Page 48: Introducing Adelheid Bürgi-Schmelz SIGMA COMMENT Enterprise groups: a hard FOCUS ON NSIs Our news nut to crack open 19 Statistics go global 2 Census goes online Fons Theis, who has substantial- … finds Eurostat's Arto Luhtio 40 Eurostat Director-General Yves Franchet Gustav Haraldsen and Coen Hendriks ly shaped the character and look opens the issue A driving force for invite fellow Norwegians to surf of Sigma over the past six years, the integration of waved farewell to Eurostat at the SIGMA THEME the world's economies 21 Taking a picture of Hungary's society 42 beginning of this year. But he is Bettina Knauth of Eurostat elucidates for- STATISTICS AND GLOBALISATION Gábor Rózsa, Central Statistical Office eign affiliates statistics only a short walk away in his of Hungary, on their census new job as Director of the Getting the best out Globalisation at European Commission of globalisation 4 Vikings launch a joint the service of growth 24 Representation in Luxembourg – a By Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy plan of attack 44 by Anne-Christine Strandell Heli Jeskanen-Sundström, Director- function that he had already held Putting e into statistics 6 of Sweden's ITPS General of Statistics Finland, about the from 1990 to 1995 before get- By Commissioner Erkki Liikanen, Nordic Strategy Group ting into the driving seat of infor- responsible for Enterprise "Fortune smiles on the mation and communication at and Information Society best prepared" 26 "All change please" for inter- modal transport statistics 46 Eurostat.