ROME. The government confirms the convocation of the unions on the ex Ilva affair tomorrow at 3pm. This can be read in a note from the Presidency of the Council of Ministers sent to the unions which specifies that the meeting will take place at Palazzo Chigi.
The background Ex Ilva, countdown: hypothesis of a definitive agreement to liquidate the Mittals PAOLO BARONI 15 January 2024
Meanwhile, Alessandro Marescotti, president of the Peacelink association active for years on the health and environmental protection front, writes on Facebook: «The Council of Ministers has approved the rescue plan for the former Ilva which provides for the company’s transition into extraordinary administration. Is this good or bad news? Bad news. For those who believed in Ilva’s future, this is bad news for two reasons: first because ArcelorMittal did not accept the “consensual divorce” (there remains a costly dispute for the Italian State); secondly because no private individual comes forward to take over a defunct, polluting steelworks, which is subject to a new investigation by the judiciary due to benzene peaks and which, moreover, has its plants seized”, he explains. «Can you imagine Arvedi investing in plants seized by the judiciary? Therefore all the imaginative relaunch plans with a new private partner and with the presence of the State in the majority or minority are ruined”, he continues.
«For those who said, like me, that the crisis is very serious, this is good news as it confirms that the Government uses an extreme tool to keep alive a productive activity that no one wants anymore – Marescotti always writes -. It is the last desperate move in a long history comparable to a resuscitation attempt. Ilva is now in an assisted coma. She is not dead yet, but she vegetates in the limbo of a hopeless future. It becomes necessary to plan that plan B that we have been proposing for ten years. Ten years wasted and a lot of money wasted on a loss-making business that has come to an end. Let it be clear that this commissionership is not nationalization. But the impossibility of realizing it due to the opposition of ArcelorMittal”, he concludes.