Wales lags behind rest of Europe despite funding

YEARS of multi-million pound EU investment in Wales’ poorest areas have still left them lagging behind in the economic league table, new figures from the European Commission have revealed, February 2008.

Eurostat: News Release No.19, 2008: GDP per inhabitant in 2005 ranged from 24% of the EU27 average in Nord-Est in Romania to 303% in Inner London http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-press-releases/-/1-12022008-AP

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