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08 November 2019 Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte canceled the meeting scheduled today with the President of the Republic of Lithuania, Gitanas Nauseda, to go to the Apulian city and face the problems related to the management of the steel plant. Waiting for him in Taranto, near the former Ilva steel plant, Arcelor Mittal dozens of workers and exponents of environmental associations of the city who are demanding the closure and conversion of the plant. The premier has chosen to go to the Apulian city to meet the works council. Also present at the meeting were several mayors (with bands) of the centers of the province (Carosino, Monteiasi, Laterza, San Giorgio Jonico, Grottaglie, Palagiano, Palagianello, Fragagnano and Torricella) who claim to be heard "for the drama is occupational and environmental that involves the territory ".

Jindal: we will not renew interest in the former Ilva
The Indian group Jindal denies an interest in the assets of the former Ilva, after Arcelor Mittal's retreat. "We strongly deny" read a tweet posted on the group's Twitter channel, the press rumors that "Jindal Steel & Power could renew its interest in the Taranto steel plant".

"We have already denied these speculations," said a spokesman for the Indian group, contacted in the morning to find out if Jindal could consider his intervention. And he postponed to the position expressed for the first time on Twitter on November 4 and reiterated the next day with a new 'twitter' in which "once again we deny these rumors and invite anyone to do a check before speculating".

Today the strike against 5 thousand redundancies
Strike in progress at the Taranto plant, promoted by Fim, Fiom and Uilm after the withdrawal of the contract by Arcelor Mittal and the declaration of 5 thousand redundancies. The 24-hour strike, starting today, could only be the first, in order to protect the Taranto area from the occupational 'earthquake' and above all to demand compliance with contractual obligations by the Anglo-Indian multinational.

Assembly of workers in Genoa
Great attendance this morning at the workers' meeting at the Arcelor Mittal plant in Cornigliano, Genoa. Together, Fim Fiom Uilm, pending the development of negotiations between the government and the company, proclaimed the state of agitation of the staff and reiterated their desire to defend the jobs and the income of the workers also with demonstrations and strikes. Fim, Fiom and Uilm reiterated their support for the reintroduction of legal protections and argued for the need and obligation for the company to comply with the agreement of 6 September to protect the entire occupation.

Commissioners to request stop Afo2 extension
Ilva commissioners in extraordinary administration will present an application to the judicial authority of Taranto to request the extension of the deadline of December 13 set by the court for the implementation of the security adjustments of the Altoforno 2 subjected to seizure after the accident in June 2015 in which the worker Alessandro Morricella died. This was announced by the same commissioners, Francesco Ardito, Alessandro Danovi and Antonio Lupo, in a meeting held yesterday in the public prosecutor's office with the prosecutor of Taranto, Carlo Maria Capristo.

Moody's, risk rating without goodbye Ilva
Moody's confirms Arcelor Mittal's 'Baa3' rating but changes the outlook from 'stable' to 'negative'. The review, a note reads, "reflects the rapid decline in earnings this year in the context of declining demand from the end market and deterioration of steel spreads". "Further downward pressure" on the rating could come "from the inability to execute without friction and in a timely manner the proposed resolution to purchase Ilva".

Boccia: if the market fails it is up to the State
"Steel is strategic and if the market fails it is not a scandal but it is simply right for the state to take care of it. Let's stop fooling ourselves. All over the world, in strategic companies, in some industrial sectors there is the state" . This was stated by the Minister for Regional Affairs and the Autonomies, Francesco Boccia, speaking of the dispute over the former Ilva steelworks in Taranto on the sidelines of a meeting on differentiated autonomy organized at the headquarters of Confindustria Bari and Bat. "Ilva must continue to produce steel but cannot produce it as it was produced in 1970. This must be clear to everyone. If Mittal remains and respects the signed contract, it will be welcome, if instead to remain threatened to put 5,000 workers on the street, it evidently has wrong to do this race and those who thought that on Mittal there could be an industrial perspective were wrong and, then, the answer of the seventh industrial power to the world is simple: go and blackmail someone else "added the minister.

See: shield rules changed, evaluate the judge
On the penal shield for the former Ilva various regulatory changes have "occurred". And in the face of "such an evolution" of the framework of the provisions, "it cannot be left to the referring judge to evaluate concretely" their incidence "both in terms of relevance and in reference to the non-manifest groundlessness of the questions of constitutional legitimacy raised" . Thus the Constitutional Court motivated the decision taken last October 9 to return the documents to the investigating judge of Taranto.

King David: company assumes its responsibilities
"This company must assume its responsibilities. This company has taken Ilva, which is the largest steelworks in Europe and the other factories in Italy, through a public tender of international standing, made financial commitments. , industrial, environmental, has made an important trade union agreement on the occupational level that provides for zero redundancies.It cannot be presented a year later and say that it was wrong, that there are questions concerning duties, that the situation is difficult, that therefore if it goes away, or that there are 5 thousand layoffs. Otherwise, probably, this race would not have won ". The general secretary of the FIOM, Francesca Re David, said this, speaking on the sidelines of the general assembly of the CGIL metalworkers in Naples.

Furlan: the legal way is cumbersome to return to the table
"The strike of workers of the former Ilva was today a strong, clear, unified signal that cannot be ignored by Arcelor Mittal and also by the Government: the industrial site cannot be abandoned less than a year after the signing of the agreement that was relaunching the productive capacity, the defense of the occupation and above all the investments for the environmentalization and the safety of the plants ". This was stated by the general secretary of the CISL, Annamaria Furlan, explaining that it is necessary to return to the confrontation table avoiding it as a legal route because it is cumbersome and with the risk of finding the company closed.

Messina: Mittal agreement or assessing nationalization
On the former Ilva it is "fundamental to arrive at an agreement with Mittal" or alternatively "the Government should evaluate the possibility of nationalizing Ilva even if it is potentially in conflict with the EU norms". This opinion is expressed by the CEO of Intesa Sanpaolo, Carlo Messina, according to whom on this front "a complex situation" has been created on what "is undoubtedly a strategic asset for the country"