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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Nicola Davis

Wine, beer or spirits? Europeans can’t kick their traditional drinking habits

Greece was identified as belonging to a wine drinking cluster that included France and Sweden in 2019.
Greece was identified as belonging to a wine drinking cluster that included France and Sweden in 2019. Photograph: Santorines/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Whether it is the French penchant for wine, German fondness for beer or a shot or two of sprits in the Baltics, European countries can’t seem to kick their traditional drinking habits, researchers have found.

A study looking at drinking patterns across Europe from 2000 to 2019 has found little sign of countries shifting their preferred type of alcoholic beverage, prevalence of drinking, or boozing behaviours such as binge drinking.

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