{"id":461448,"date":"2026-07-30T12:14:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/07\/30\/oltre-un-europeo-su-quattro-non-puo-permettersi-una-settimana-di-vacanza\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T12:35:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:35:47","slug":"more-than-one-in-four-europeans-cannot-afford-a-weeks-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/07\/30\/more-than-one-in-four-europeans-cannot-afford-a-weeks-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"More than one in four Europeans cannot afford a week\u2019s holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 Holidays are becoming an increasingly rare luxury for some Europeans. In 2025, 27.5 per cent of European Union citizens were unable to afford one week of annual holiday<\/strong> away from home, <\/strong>according to data published by Eurostat<\/a>, the EU\u2019s statistical office.<\/p>\n

 Compared with 2024, the figure has risen by 0.5 percentage points<\/strong>, indicating a slight deterioration in the situation. Looking at the long term, however, the figure shows a marked improvement: compared with 2015, the percentage of people who cannot afford a week\u2019s holiday has fallen by 7.7 percentage points. In total, compared with the 2025 population<\/a>, there are 124,297,336 Europeans who have been forced to stay at home because they cannot afford the cost of accommodation and travel. <\/p>\n

The greatest difficulties are in Romania<\/strong>, where more than half the population \u2013 61.4 per cent \u2013 cannot afford a week\u2019s holiday away from home. Greece follows (46.6 per cent), while Bulgaria and Hungary share the same figure, at 39.1 per cent.<\/p>\n

 Italy, too, ranks above the European average. In 2025, 35.7 per cent of Italians said they could not afford a week\u2019s holiday<\/strong> away from home, highlighting how the cost of holidays continues to be a barrier for more than one in three citizens. This represents a deterioration of 4.3 percentage points compared with the Italian figure for 2024<\/a>, when 31.4 per cent of Italian citizens stated that they could not leave home for seven days. In total, there are over 21 million people in Italy who cannot afford a week\u2019s holiday away from home<\/strong>. These are certainly not encouraging figures for a G7 member country. <\/p>\n

At the other end of the scale, however, are the countries with the lowest incidence of this form of economic deprivation. In Luxembourg, the figure falls to 10.6 per cent<\/strong>, followed by Sweden (12.4 per cent) and the Netherlands (12.8 per cent), confirming that households in these countries are better able to afford leisure spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Italy ranks above the European average. According to Eurostat data, in 2025, 35.7 per cent of Italians said they could not afford a week\u2019s holiday away from home. This represents a deterioration of 4.3 percentage points compared with 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7896,"featured_media":461422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[26180,31425,26105,27803,35130,30900],"class_list":["post-461448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-eurostat-en-2","tag-dati-eurostat-en","tag-poverta-en","tag-vacanze-lunghe","tag-holidays-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461449,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461448\/revisions\/461449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}