{"id":278467,"date":"2026-02-03T12:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/278467\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T12:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:12:14","slug":"nearly-1-in-5-greeks-struggle-to-heat-homes-highest-rate-in-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/278467\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 1 in 5 Greeks struggle to heat homes, highest rate in EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/shutt-heating.jpg\" alt=\"Nearly 1 in 5 Greeks struggle to heat homes, highest rate in EU\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/shutt-heating.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[Shutterstock]<\/p>\n<p>Nearly one in five Greeks (19%) struggled to keep their homes adequately warm in 2024, Eurostat reported Monday, the highest rate in the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Bulgaria matched Greece at 19%, followed by Lithuania at 18% and Spain at 17.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Across the EU, 9.2% of the population faced difficulty heating their homes, down from 10.6% in 2023, signaling a slight improvement.<\/p>\n<p>The lowest rates were recorded in Finland (2.7%), Poland and Slovenia (3.3%), and Estonia and Luxembourg (3.6%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Shutterstock] Nearly one in five Greeks (19%) struggled to keep their homes adequately warm in 2024, Eurostat reported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,3766,60,4814,3767,51265],"class_list":["post-278467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-in-depth","tag-ireland","tag-poverty","tag-society","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}