On Thursday 23 May, the European Commissioner for Cohesion, Elisa Ferreira, launched the latest edition of the EU’s regional social progress index, at an event organised in Brussels by the European Committee of the Regions (CoR).
This index measures social progress in the regions of the EU and enables the Commission to assess the quality of life and well-being of its citizens.
“We have been saying for a long time that the GDP is a useful tool to assess how EU regions are progressing,...