EU becoming safer, better-off and healthier - but less gender-equal


  • World
  • Monday, 22 Jun 2020

European Economy Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni speaks during a news conference on the 2020 Eurostat report on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals in the EU, in Brussels, Belgium June 22, 2020. REUTERS/Yves Herman/Pool

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Crime, violence, poverty, ill health and air pollution have all declined in the European Union over the last five years - but gender inequality has worsened and efforts to fight climate change have achieved little.

A report from the EU statistics office, Eurostat, measured progress towards 17 "Sustainable Development Goals" between 2014 and 2019.

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