EU Parliament, debate scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 28, on Florence construction site tragedy

From the reporter in Strasbourg – Luigi, Mohamed, Muhamed, Bouzekri, Taoufik. The names of the five workers who died in the collapse of the Esselunga supermarket construction site in Florence last Feb. 16, remembered at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. At the request of the European Left Group, a debate on the prevention of work-related deaths will be held in the parliament on Wednesday, Feb. 28, following the Florence tragedy. After expressing condolences to the families of the victims, La France Insoumise MEP Marina Mesure gave some numbers, “In Italy, a worker loses their life every six hours; in France, there have already been 53 deaths at work since the beginning of the year. Across the European Union, according to Eurostat data for 2021, there were 3347 fatal accidents at work. Alarming figures that photograph an “unsustainable and revolting” situation that “no one is talking about.”

The debate proposed by the Left (and approved by 238 votes in favour, 81 against and six abstentions) will also be attended by the European Commission, which will be called upon to respond to the need to guarantee the right to a healthy and safe working environment, a fundamental right established by the United Nations. “It is time to make the invisible visible,” Mesure concluded.