Executive VP Minzatu Issues Statement on Proposal for European Day in Remembrance of Victims of Accidents at Work Ahead of 70-Year Commemoration of Marcinelle Tragedy
August 07, 2026
August 07, 2026
BRUSSELS, Belgium, Aug. 7 -- The European Union issued the following statement by Executive Vice-President Roxana Minzatu:
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Seventy years ago, on 8 August 1956, 262 workers of 12 nationalities, many of which from Italy, died in a fire at the Bois du Cazier coal mine in Marcinelle, Belgium. Most had come to Belgium in search of work and a better future. They never returned home.
Everyone who goes to work should return home safely. That is the most funda . . .
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Seventy years ago, on 8 August 1956, 262 workers of 12 nationalities, many of which from Italy, died in a fire at the Bois du Cazier coal mine in Marcinelle, Belgium. Most had come to Belgium in search of work and a better future. They never returned home.
Everyone who goes to work should return home safely. That is the most funda . . .