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June 29, 2020 The historic agreement signed last Saturday in Trieste for the dismantling of the hot steel mill area and the permanent safety of the land has rekindled the controversy in Taranto. The Trieste agreement aims to relaunch the industrial area where the blast furnace of the Ferola di Servola stood, with the aim of creating a logistics center in its place to serve the port and the local economy.

The lunge of the mayor of Taranto
"Never again will blast furnaces in Taranto, the Government beat a blow". The mayor of Taranto, Rinaldo Melucci, speaks after "in Trieste the government has closed the area forever and invested hundreds of millions of euros in the conversion. What do they think to tell the tarantini? And the Ionian parliamentarians stop releasing statements as if they were not in government, act immediately, their numbers may be enough to shake the parliamentary majority. "

The mayor joins those who denounce, "the social partners and the business system in the first place", an "inexplicable and inconsistent absence of the theme of the steel plant from the useful proposals". The "interventions lowered from above without a necessary confrontation with the community" and the "announcements disconnected from a serious and definitive discussion on the production of steel in Taranto" remain: "a real start of the extraordinary remediation, a radical technological conversion is missing". "We want to build a future starting from a solution for the former Ilva, not pretending that everything is in place and around it".

Vianello (M5s): "Closing the hot area of ​​Taranto"
"Closing the hot area of ​​the Servola ironworks in Trieste through a program agreement is excellent news for the environment, health, employment and economic diversification. Now it is necessary to replicate it also in Taranto ". This was stated by the M5S Tarantino deputy, Giovanni Vianello. "For years we have argued that a program agreement, such as the one promoted for the industrial sites of Genoa and Trieste, could be the ideal tool to close the hot area of ​​the former Ilva of Taranto which, compared to the plants located in the two cities of the north, it has a much larger and more polluting production process. It is now clear that the road taken in 2012 to pursue the hot area of ​​Taranto at all costs has been unsuccessful from all points of view ". 

Taranto Chamber of Commerce: "We are ignored"
"Just ignore Taranto, the time has come for us to change the development model". The president of the Chamber of Commerce of Taranto, Luigi Sportelli, invites the Government to follow the same path for Taranto that sanctioned last Saturday, with a program agreement, the closure of the steel mill of Servola, in Trieste and the start of a economic conversion of that area. "Ignored, penalized, coaxed with unfulfilled promises. We are tired of seeing that in other territories the industrial scenario can be radically changed while Taranto remains behind". "There is a difference in treatment that is no longer tolerable. We congratulate Trieste on the exceptional result obtained, but this agreement, if put in parallel with decades of failure to listen to our territory, increases our frustration and more" .

Co-investment table at work
"The discussion table between ArcelorMittal, Mef and Invitalia on the co-investment of the state alongside the private individual is going on, he continues, and by the end of the week he expects to have a picture of the situation". Sources close to the ArcelorMittal dossier say this after the call this morning between Ilva commissioners in extraordinary administration, who own the plants, Mise, Mef and Invitalia. The table, which began in recent days, serves to establish the methods of public co-investment through Invitalia, controlled by Mef, in ArcelorMittal.

A plan by November
The public co-investment is the basis of the agreement of last March between ArcelorMittal and extraordinary administration and is an operation that must be closed by next November, otherwise ArcelorMittal will be able to withdraw from the operation in Ilva by paying a penalty of 500 million. Compared to March, the scenario has changed due to the presentation by the company, on June 5, of an industrial plan which provides for 3200 redundancies. Plan already rejected by government and unions and which constitutes a major obstacle to negotiations. Meanwhile, in July the new installment of the quarterly rent that ArcelorMittal has to pay to Ilva as: 25 million expires. ArcelorMittal did not pay the previous installment.