Data on EU countries. Something other than UNdata and eurostat?

Hello.

My goal is to find certain statistical information about different countries of european union(related to things like employment, crime,cost of living,immigration, social nets etc.), however im quite new to this and i have no idea where to look.

I have found two major sources of data: eurostat and UNdata, but i was wondering if there are some other sources out there that i couldn’t find on google?

WolframAlpha and the Entity framework may have the data you are looking for. E.g.

WolframAlpha["European union country data"]

euCountries = EntityList@EntityClass["Country", "EuropeanUnion"]

EntityValue[Entity["Country", "Austria"], "PropertyAssociation"] // DeleteMissing // Dataset

Where does the data itself come from?

The Source EntityType provides information on the source of the data. Check the documentation for details.