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Europe's cost of living crisis

The impacts of rising prices and energy costs on daily life across the continent

  • Kyriakos Mitsotakis

    Centre-left politics has been dealt a crushing blow in Greece. What can we learn from it?

    Marina Prentoulis
    The Syriza party did worse than most thought possible, says Marina Prentoulis, a politics professor at the University of East Anglia
  • steel coils at the Thyssenkrupp plant in Germany

    European economy expected to grow faster than forecast, says EU

    Revised outlook for 2023 and 2024 puts average growth for 27-member bloc at 1%
  • Brett Christophers

    From poster child to worst performing EU economy: how bad housing policy broke Sweden

    Brett Christophers
    High mortgage debt and a broken rental system is taking its toll on a country once seen as the example for others to follow, says Brett Christophers, an economic geography professor
  • The Bank president, David Malpass

    World Bank walking tightrope as it mulls increased lending to poorest

    Campaigners say bank should rush to rescue countries facing recession – but can it do so without resulting in mass debt write-offs?
  • A student receiving vegetables from a volunteer, in Bordeaux, south-western France.

    ‘My balance is on zero’: young Europeans on their first experience of inflation

    High rents, low pay and spiralling food costs have left younger workers struggling to make ends meet and worried about the future
  • Rows of peat turf in Ireland

    ‘Like an oilwell in your back yard’: Irish people turn to cutting peat to save on energy bills

    Curbs to protect Ireland’s bogs have gone up in smoke amid soaring costs – theft of trees and woodpiles in Germany also rising
  • A sign that reads: ‘Stop the war with Russia, open Nord Stream 2!’ during a Monday-night protest in Schwerin in October.

    ‘Angry winter’: Germany’s Monday night protests unite far-right and left

    Anger over cost-of-living rises and sanctions against Russia has sparked demonstrations in former East Germany
  • A protest against high energy prices and the rising cost of living in Brussels on Sunday

    ‘I’m in crisis every day’: prices outpace Belgians’ inflation-matched pay

    Even in a country with automatic increases to pay and benefits, there are concerns over the cost of living
  • The fruit and veg section at a Matmissionen supermarket

    ‘Sweden has a poverty problem’: the social stores offering food at rock-bottom prices

    Rising food and energy prices are being felt across Europe. In the first part of a new series, we look at the impacts on daily life
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