{"id":42679,"date":"2025-08-04T06:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T06:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/42679\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T06:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T06:56:11","slug":"portuguese-among-those-who-can-least-afford-a-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/42679\/","title":{"rendered":"Portuguese among those who can least afford a holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although it still represents more than a quarter of the adult population, this figure shows positive signs of recovery: 1.5 percentage points (p.p.) less than in 2023 and 10.6 p.p. less than in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The reality, however, is quite uneven across EU countries. Romania leads the list of countries with the most citizens unable to afford a vacation, with 58.6% of the population in this situation. Greece (46.0%), Bulgaria (41.4%), Hungary (39.3%), and Portugal (35.2%) follow, where economic hardships continue to affect residents&#8217; annual vacations.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/holidays-in-europe.png\" class=\"img-fluid\" width=\"800\" data-height=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>At the other end of the scale, countries like Luxembourg (8.9%), Sweden (11.6%), and the Netherlands (13.0%) have significantly lower percentages, revealing families&#8217; greater ability to afford a week away from home.<\/p>\n<p>This data reflects differences in purchasing power and cost of living between Member States, as well as the impact of more effective social and labour policies in certain countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although it still represents more than a quarter of the adult population, this figure shows positive signs of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-42679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}