{"id":648304,"date":"2026-10-08T07:02:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/648304\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T07:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:02:38","slug":"from-leisure-to-meals-can-eu-people-afford-such-items-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/648304\/","title":{"rendered":"From leisure to meals: can EU people afford such items? – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2025, 12.1% of people in the EU<\/a> could not afford to participate regularly in a leisure activity. This share ranged from 3.9% in Croatia to 27.3% in Greece.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Additionally, 8.5% of people could not afford a meal with meat, chicken, fish (or vegetarian equivalent) every second day. This share ranged from 1.2% in Cyprus to 18.1% in Romania.<\/p>\n

When it comes to internet access, 2.0% of people in the EU could not afford an internet connection for personal use at home. This share ranged from 0.1% in Finland to 6.2% in Romania.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"People<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Source datasets: ilc_mdes11a<\/a>, ilc_mdes03<\/a> and ilc_mddu07a<\/a><\/p>\n

This information comes from Key figures on European living conditions \u2013 2026 edition<\/a>. This publication outlines the key findings on living conditions in the EU, with a special focus on its most vulnerable groups. For a more detailed view of the EU\u2019s performance in various fields, explore the other Key figures publications<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2025, 12.1% of people in the EU could not afford to participate regularly in a leisure activity.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,757,113,61,275091,60,9667],"class_list":["post-648304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-data-driven-news","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ilc","tag-ireland","tag-population-and-social-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648304","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=648304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}