Financial discrimination against cancer survivors

17.9.2025

Priority question for written answer  P-003571/2025/rev.1
to the Commission
Rule 144
Kateřina Konečná (NI)

Across Europe, more than 20 million people previously diagnosed with cancer are living cancer-free. However, when trying to return to normal life, they face financial discrimination. For example, recent research found that 40 % of adolescents and young adults who survived cancer have difficulties obtaining mortgages, loans or insurance.

The right to be forgotten (RTBF) was enshrined in EU law for the first time in the Consumer Credit Directive[1], which must be transposed into national law this year.

• 1.Does the Commission have data on financial discrimination in mortgage and insurance markets against people with a history of cancer?
• 2.Why has the Commission suspended the revision of the Mortgage Credit Directive[2], and therefore delayed the inclusion of the RTBF?

Submitted: 17.9.2025

• [1] OJ L, 2023/2225, 30.10.2023, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2023/2225/oj.
• [2] OJ L 60, 28.2.2014, p. 34, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/17/oj.