Written question – Lack of targeted support policies for people with disabilities and vulnerable groups in the EU – E-002221/2025

Question for written answer  E-002221/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Afroditi Latinopoulou (PfE)

The European Union proclaims social cohesion and care for the most vulnerable. However, reality exposes it. While in most Member States people with disabilities, low-income pensioners, single-parent families and other vulnerable social groups do not receive sufficient support to respond to price surges, the European Commission continues to allocate hundreds of millions of euros in subsidies, integration programmes and benefits for illegal immigrants.

In view of the above:

• 1.How does the Commission justify unequal treatment to the detriment of European citizens themselves, as people with disabilities and the poorest social classes remain without material support, while billions are allocated to housing, benefits and programmes for illegal immigrants?
• 2.While the Commission imposes green and digital reforms, citizens with serious needs – people with disabilities, the elderly, low earners – do not have the financial means to respond. What protection mechanisms does the Commission intend to propose so that our vulnerable fellow citizens do not slide to the social margins of this ‘new’ Europe?
• 3.The high cost of energy, basic goods and rents has disproportionately affected vulnerable groups. Why does the Commission not commit funds to these expenses, as it does for migration programmes, and does the Commission intend to promote direct, targeted financial aid to Member States, with citizens with disabilities and other vulnerable groups as the exclusive recipients?

Submitted: 3.6.2025