The foreign press has the annoying tendency to always present the Portugal as a warm country, offering 300 days of sunshine per year, where the cost of living is low, etc., unfortunately, the reality is quite different.
Portugal is the fifth country in the European Union where the percentage of people who cannot afford to heat their homes is higher, according to data published Monday by Eurostat around 19 % of the population can't afford heating. By way of comparison, the leading country in this ranking is Bulgaria (34 %), followed by Lithuania (28 %), Greece (23 %), Cyprus (22 %), Portugal (19 %) and Italy (14 %).
In 2018, 7 % of the EU population had declared in a Europe-wide survey that they could not afford to heat their homes for lack of means, this percentage peaked in 2012 at 11 %.
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