Press release No. 250 of 3 July 2020
WIESBADEN – More than 11.3 million people were employed and a turnover of just under 3.4 trillion euros generated by the roughly 643,000 industry enterprises in Germany in 2018. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that, by comparison, 19.8 million people worked in the nearly two million service enterprises. The turnover of those enterprises amounted to almost 3.5 trillion euros.
Special webpage on the EU Council Presidency
The webpage www.destatis.de/eu2020 specifically set up will provide all information on the German EU Council Presidency in the field of statistics. All important documents of the meetings of the Council Working Party on Statistics will be available there. In addition, the page gives an overview of the priorities of the German EU Council Presidency in the field of statistics and provides information on conferences and events planned during the German EU Council Presidency.