The President of the National Statistical Council (NSC), Assoc. Prof. Ekaterina Tosheva, PhD participated in a seminar of the European Statistical Advisory Committee (ESAC), which took place in Athens in the period of 26-27 March 2025. The event was organized in close cooperation between the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) and Eurostat under the moto “Statistical priorities in Europe: the users’ perspective and mechanisms for consultations”.
The seminar strengthens the cooperation between the European Statistical Advisory Committee and the National Statistical Councils and the Users of Statistical Information Councils of the EU member states and promotes the participation of users in defining future priorities in the different statistical areas. The participants in the event had the opportunity to discuss numerous issues related to the serious challenges facing official statistics, the new requirements and priorities, as well as public expectations at the national, regional and European levels. Among the discussed topics were climate change, sustainable development, technological changes in the development of Artificial Intelligence, demographics challenges related to population aging and migration flows, as well as extraordinary circumstances such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
The European Statistical Advisory Committee (ESAC) has 24 members representing users, respondents and other stakeholders of European Statistics (including the scientific community, social partners and civil society) as well as institutional users (like e.g, the Council and the European Parliament). It ensures that, user requirements, as well as the workload on respondents and the producers of official statistical information, are taken into account in the development of statistical programmes.
