Eurostat: Romania doled out 0.7% of GDP for environment protection in 2004, above EU average, statistics show
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Romania broke the wallet open and spent some 0.7 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) on environment protection projects four years ago, above the then European average of 0.4 percent, according to the European statistics body Eurostat.Spending with environment protection of the 25 EU members in 2004 stood at a medium 45.6 billion euros. The European statistics revealed that Romanian industrial companies spent 585 million euros to reduce pollution four years ago, 40 percent of this ...