Brussels, 11/07/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 11 July, the European Commission announced that it has decided to open a formal investigation into claims of statistical misreporting in the Valencia region of Spain. European Commission spokeswoman Emer Traynor said that this did not cast doubt on the accuracy of Spanish national statistics, but that the investigation was only looking at one region and one type of expenditure.
In May 2012, the Spanish national statistical authorities...