Three out of ten people in the EU say they are finding it difficult to make ends meet, with inflation reducing their financial resilience, according to a new Eurofound survey published on Tuesday 14 January.
According to the survey, this proportion ranges from 17% in Luxembourg to 55% in Greece.
“This was a marked increase on 2023, when 22% reported difficulties making ends meet. The findings reflect increased challenges for households to deal with sustained inflation, despite improvements in macro-level economic indicators”.
Conducted in spring 2024, the online survey reports on the situation of European respondents and their post-pandemic concerns: 10% of those surveyed had not paid their rent or mortgage and 15% reported arrears in utility bills.
The highest proportions of people experiencing difficulties are in Greece, Croatia and Estonia. “Greece also had the highest proportion of respondents saying that they might need to leave their accommodation in the coming months because they can no longer afford it (22%), followed by Cyprus (19%), and Estonia, Finland and Latvia (16%)”.
Link to the report: https://aeur.eu/f/f0v (Original version in French by Solenn Paulic)