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November 07, 2019If ArcelorMittal were to disengage from the former Ilva group's facilities "the first step would be to attribute the commissioner management to the Mise". According to union sources, the possibility of profiling the premier Giuseppe Conte during the meeting with social forces and local authorities at Palazzo Chigi. The President of the Council would have asked the local institutions to support the defense in a possible "dispute" with ArcelorMittal as civil parties, sources at the table report. The sense of the reasoning of the President of the Council, it is learned, is that if everyone is in judgment, "we are stronger".

Emiliano: impeccable government position
"It has not often happened that I have shared the intervention of a prime minister in this room from the first to the last word, but it happened tonight. I believe that the position the government has taken is unexceptionable in terms of defense. of the law and dignity of our country ". The president of the Puglia region, Michele Emiliano, said this at the meeting between the government, local institutions and the social partners.

Landini: no to a legal battle. Nationalization? Government has not talked about it
"The legal battle can only be a favor to Mittal, but for me it is not the passable ground. Nationalization? There have been no responses from the government, for us the centrality is to have the 2018 agreement enforced". This was stated by the general secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, after the meeting at Palazzo Chigi on the Ex Ilva. ArcelorMittal "must respect the agreement: this is the first point. It is not acceptable for those who sign agreements to consider not respecting them". Landini reiterated that reinstating the criminal shield is a choice of "common sense" and re-launched the idea that "the government puts on the plate the availability, through CDP, to enter the property". "We have told the government that in a short time it must have an answer" from the company and "if in the next few hours there will not be a turning point we must decide, as a union, everything that must be put in place".

Furlan: nobody spoke of nationalization
"At the Palazzo Chigi table no one spoke of nationalization", confirms the general secretary of the CISL, Annamaria Furlan, at the end of the meeting on the former Ilva.
"Plan B is not there. We must force the company to re-open negotiations to respect the agreement" but "the table of the criminal shield must be cleared away".

Barbagallo: ArcelorMittal must respect the agreement
"There is concern that negotiations with the company will not be possible. ArcelorMittal must respect the commitment and the agreement signed or we will have serious problems remaining in the steel sector." Thus the general secretary of the Uil, Carmelo Barbagallo, at the end of the table at Palazzo Chigi. Compared to a hypothesis of nationalization, "many countries, like France, always have 15-20% of strategic companies," he said.

De Micheli: nationalize? Open to everything
On the Ilva affair "we are ready for anything, and we will decide on the merits together dealing with the negotiation with Mittal". Thus stated Infrastructure Minister, Paola De Micheli (Pd), asked about the possibility of a nationalization of Ilva.

Fico: State must be united, hard with company
On the former Ilva "the State must be united and compact to assert reasons and rights, it cannot be thought that a multinational rags in such a simplistic way. The State must go down hard. From third position of the State I say that this it is one of the classic moments in which the State must be united ", says the president of the Chamber Roberto Fico to the reporters in front of Palazzo Chigi.

Beware of Ex Ilva: protecting employment
Ilva in extraordinary administration responds to ArcelorMittal's communication on the retrocession of the company branches and the transfer of employees, communicated to the union representatives and to the company itself: "We distrust - he writes - from wanting to give up and, in any case, stop behaviors until currently in place and those pronounced and, in particular, from adopting any further action to the detriment of the employment and income protection of employees and the state of the plants ".