Press Release: Europeans want policy makers to consider the environment as important as economic and social policies

Findings of the Special Eurobarometer 217, April 2005, on 'The attitudes of European citizens towards environment'.

According to the survey, for Europeans, a healthy environment was as important to their quality of life as the state of the economy and social factors. The environmental issues that citizens worried most about were water pollution, man-made disasters, climate change, air pollution and chemicals. The survey was also the first to examine attitudes towards the environment across the enlarged EU-25.