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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10364
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/environment

Criteria other than GDP needed to measure wellbeing

Brussels, 21/04/2011 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament (EP) environment committee, which is chaired by Jo Leinen (S&D, Germany) is of the view that, to measure the progress of society, using GDP as the sole criterion is not enough and that better account has to be taken of social and environmental factors. With its adoption on 19 April of the report by Ana Rosbach, by the wide majority of 59 votes to one, with one abstention, the committee welcomed the Commission communication of...

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