Brussels, 17/01/2014 (Agence Europe) - The European Union's statistics office, Eurostat, announced on Thursday 16 January that it will revise upwards the EU's annual gross domestic product figures by 2.4 percentage points when it switches to a new accounting standard in September, part of a worldwide move to a new accounting system called System of National Accounts 2008, already implemented in the United States last August.
“The weighted average impact on GDP of methodological changes is...