Europeans (Germans, Latins, Celts, Slavs, ...) be careful about statistics ... take care about your Europe:
European Commission and Portuguese Government for example, have tried to manipulate public opinion about the virtualities of the bad options of Economic Policy by the second quarter figures of 2013 that we analyse in the previous messages. They don´t took about the bad first half figures, the resultant of the the first and second quarters.
For European and Portuguese GDP we can´t calculate the first half figures of 2013 at this moment.
But for Germany we can and we can see the differences between unadjusted and adjusted figures:
The unadjusted figures with adjusted prices signalize a negative rate change of German GDP in first half of 2013 compared with first half of 2012.
In contrast let we see the oficial version of DESTATIS (https://www.destatis.de/EN/PressServices/Press/pr/2013/08/PE13_269_811.html;jsessionid=9A00D9507491A101B68FD6144E0E8C85.cae3):
«Press release 269 / 2013-08-14: Gross domestic product up 0.7% in 2nd quarter of 2013»
«WIESBADEN
– Following a weak start into the year, the German economy is gaining
momentum. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that,
compared with the previous quarter, the gross domestic product (
GDP)
increased by 0.7% in the second quarter of 2013 after adjustment for
price, seasonal and calendar variations. According to the most recent
calculations, the German economy had stagnated in the first quarter of
2013, following a 0.5% decrease of the
GDP in the last quarter of 2012.
In the second quarter of 2013, positive contributions were made
mainly by domestic demand. Final consumption expenditure was up both for
households and government when compared with the previous quarter.
Also, there was a marked increase in fixed capital formation, one of the
main reasons probably being weather-related catch-up effects following
the unusually long and cold winter. In addition, the quarter-on-quarter
increase in exports was somewhat larger than the rise in imports, so
that the balance of exports and imports also contributed to
GDP growth.
In a year-on-year comparison, too, the
GDP increased. The price-adjusted
GDP in the second quarter of 2013 was by 0.9% higher (by 0.5% in calendar-adjusted terms) than in the second quarter of 2012.
According to provisional calculations, the
GDP
in the second quarter of 2013 was achieved by 41.8 million persons in
employment in the domestic territory, which was an increase of 242,000
persons or 0.6% on a year earlier.
In the context of the first calculation of data for the second
quarter of 2013, the results published so far for the last four years
(from 2009) were also revised and corrected where required, as is done
every year in August. Corrections of the seasonally and
calendar-adjusted results may occur in the entire time series from 1991.
The current recalculation resulted in change rates for the annual and quarterly
GDP which deviate by up to 0.5 percentage points from the results published before. Especially the
GDP
change rates for the quarters and the year of 2011, for which results
of annual basic statistics were now available for the first time, were
mainly corrected upwards (see table entitled “Comparison between
previous and new results – gross domestic product, price-adjusted,
chain-linked”).
Such regular revisions are conducted on a routine basis, so that the
calculations include statistical information that has just become
available. The calculation of the
GDP
and other macroeconomic aggregates is thus successively put on a
statistically better founded data basis. The complete basic statistics
required for a “final” calculation of national accounting results are
available after four years at the latest, so that the results will be
final and will no longer require regular revision only after that
period.
More detailed results will be released by the Federal Statistical Office on 23 August 2013. (...)»
Better for German Government isn´t it? We will wait for National accounts with first half figures for all countries!
In the forthcoming German elections the persons of Germany will decide what kind of Germany and Europe wish.

Die PARTEI
Partei für Arbeit, Rechtsstaat, Tierschutz, Elitenförderung & basisdemokratische Initiative (The PARTY Party for Work, Rule-of-Law, Protection of Animals, Advancement of Elites, and Grassroot-Democratic Initiative) a political party with few votes in a recent iniciative about Tourism in Berlin (http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/satirical-party-die-partei-holds-tourist-protest-at-brandenburg-gate-a-916817.html)

The rise of the German Pirate Party and a image of a school censorship of it website.

Die Grünen can have a determinant role in German election. Below the happiness of the victory in Stuttgart (2012).



SPD still the hope for a political change in Germany ...

Greece still an example of the German Government failure in the european crisis management! Portugal also! Devaluation is not a way ... Valuation yes!