Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-002437/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Giuseppe Antoci (The Left)
In recent months, several complaints have been lodged by workers, trade unions and local administrators about delays and irregularities in EU-funded building sites providing work for unemployed people in Sicily[1].
According to media reports[2] and a question to the Italian Parliament[3], at least four active building sites in the city of Catania are more than 90 days late in the payment of work grants to 60 workers, despite the fact that work began in February 2025, thereby pushing already disadvantaged people into greater poverty.
Workplace safety problems have also been observed: trade unions maintain that work is ongoing on certain sites without adequate specialist training for workers.
This would appear to entail misuse of EU funding, thus penalising the final beneficiaries thereof.
Can the Commission therefore say what measures it can take to ensure that European funds for employability and workplace inclusion are indeed being paid to the final beneficiaries within the planned timeframe?
Submitted: 17.6.2025