[ChuckNorris89]

Depends on the EU country. Where I live you get 60% of your pay for something like 6 months, plus the public healthcare coverage.

Though, it's not exactly a vacation, as you're expected to prove to the unemployment office you are actively looking for a job and interviewing and you're not allowed to leave the country during that period. I mean you can leave the country, nobody will stop you, but you'll not receive unemployment or healthcare coverage for the period you're out of the country.

You can make it a vacation if you're system savvy enough and know how to game the system and aren't risk averse.

[lnsru]

You can leave easily and officially Germany during unemployment. Just bring the proof, that you sent your weekly applications and tell the Arbeitsamt officer that you’re leaving. They don’t really care about white collar workers making much more money than they do anyway. Their focus were blue collar workers and special cases like illiterate foreigner anyway. At least 5 years ago in Baden-Württemberg.