Inner London Eus Richest Region, Poorest In Bulgaria, Romania And Poland

The EU's richest people live in Inner London, while the poorest live in Bulgaria, Romania and Poland, the Daily Telegraph reports, quoting Eurostat latest research.

The three leading regions (figures are based on 271 regions' GDP in EU 27 countries) in the ranking of regional GDP per inhabitant in 2005 were Inner London (303 per cent of the average), the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (264 per cent) and Brussels (241 per cent), the Daily Telegraph reports.

The fifteen lowest regions in the rankings were all in Bulgaria, Poland and Romania, with the lowest figures recorded in the North-East of Romania (24 per cent of the average), followed by Severozapaden and Yuzhen tsentralen in Bulgaria (both 27 per cent).

Among the 69 regions below the 75 per cent level, fifteen were in Poland, eight in Romania, seven in the Czech Republic, six each in Bulgaria, Greece and Hungary, five in Italy, four in Portugal, three each in France (all overseas departments) and Slovakia, one region each in Germany, Spain and Slovenia, and Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

Eurostat warned that the GDP per inhabitant figures can be strongly influenced by the flow of cross-border commuters, the Daily Telegraph reports.propertywisebulgaria.com