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November 21st 2019After tonight's council of ministers everyone is having dinner with Conte. The premier's invitation sounds like an exhortation to tighten ranks to prepare a feasible, and above all shared, strategy before tomorrow's meeting with Arcelor Mittal. Conte's strategy is simple. The first thing that the premier will bring to the attention of Lakshmi Mittal and Aditya Mittal, father and son, CEO and CFO of Arcelor Mittal, will be the request to remove the five thousand redundancies from the table. Regarding tomorrow's meeting, Conte said: "Welcome to tomorrow's meeting, which, I say immediately, may not be a solution. The Prime Minister will bring a very clear position to ArcelorMittal. What he will do is not yet clear. We have having taken note of the deed of withdrawal and the judicial initiative of Mittal in Milan, this is unacceptable for us, handing over the keys to the plant and leaving is unacceptable, if there is a willingness to discuss, to proceed with rehabilitation and to safeguard it from Mittal the production of the plant, I sit a hundred times at the table ".

The premier and his people
Together with Roberto Gualtieri and Stefano Patuanelli it will be reiterated that the company must respect the contract signed only a year ago. From his, the government now has the power of attorney to allow Conte to ask the Mittals if they really believe they can cancel the contract without penalty, if they have taken into account how much they could end up paying. Compounding the situation is the suspicion that there has been fraudulent intent, namely the desire from the beginning to abandon the former Ilva. If the comparison is opened, the government is ready to put on the table a share of social safety nets, discounts on rents and reclamations, up to the entrance of Cdp into the company that owns the plants. The penal shield for the government would be the least of the problems. Conte will also have from his own alternative solutions that the government has examined (and continues to examine), starting from the "bridge" nationalization waiting for a new consortium to be formed. And if on November 27 the court declared the withdrawal request unfounded, the government would gain more strength in the negotiation, which tomorrow will still have to develop.

Tonight Council of Ministers on Taranto
Meanwhile tonight in the cdm we will start to discuss the "Taranto yard", that set of measures for the city that will also help to employ former Ilva employees who are already on layoffs. In this project, which should lead to a single measure, Cdp's investee companies, such as Terna and Fincantieri, should also be involved.

Cariplo Foundation, no CDP intervention
An intervention by the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti in the former Ilva "is not possible since the statutory provisions go in a completely different direction". This was confirmed by Giovanni Fosti, president of the Cariplo Foundation, one of the founding shareholders of the CDP. "It is not contemplated - he said on the sidelines of an event in Milan attended by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte - the possibility that Cdp will intervene in this match , considering that the statute defines the field of possible intervention ".

Snam available
Snam could invest up to € 40 million in Taranto as part of energy transition projects. This was stated by the managing director of Snam, Marco Alverà, stating that the Group, "does not operate in the steel". According to Alverà, that of Taranto, even after the announced farewell of Arcelor Mittal, is "a delicate subject, we have been working on it for months as we do on other cities, we met local administrators, while with CDP we feel daily about so many issues as with the Government".

Di Maio's words
"These must stay in Italy, they signed a contract, we dragged them to the Court." Thus the minister Luigi Di Maio, a guest at "L'Aria che tira" on La7, clarifies his position on the ex Ilva affair and on the decisions of Arcerol Mittal. "Now they have to come to the table, the multinational companies must respect the pacts. I don't think it's a criminal shield problem, they leave Poland and South Africa and there is no shield. We must make ourselves respected as Italy, here because we dragged them into the courts, but if you talk about nationalization, plan B, you're doing them a favor "- added. - , he added.

The money is coming, but the garrison remains
"The company has shown willingness, has initiated payments and the first transfers have arrived. In the next 48 hours there should be all the payment currencies" in the defined terms: "70% of the turnover to the hauliers, 100% of the overdue invoices all'indotto ". This was stated by the president of Confindustria Taranto, Antonio Marinaro, after a meeting with the management of A.Mittal, regarding the payments to the induced companies that have been protesting for four days before the gatehouse of the former Ilva. "The garrison outside the concierge C of the iron and steel company ArcelorMittal for now remains where it is, because it testifies to an uneasiness that continues to remain in the induced contract and because our situation has not completely resolved, but the supplier companies are however ensuring the march of the plants and the activity of the plant, first of all entering the raw materials ".

CGIL to Confindustria, remove the blockade
"Confindustria and companies immediately remove the blocks and show that maturity that this very difficult moment requires". These are the words with which the general secretary of the CGIL of Taranto, Paolo Peluso, addressed Confindustria and the companies involved in the continuation of the blockade in front of the corporate gateways of the Arcelor Mittal plant. "We had offered Confindustria, along with Cisl and Uil, the possibility of agreeing common actions - adds Peluso. The invitation to move together also claiming the legitimate request of companies to be paid for their services, was also a prerequisite that would have allowed us to be less weak, less fragmented and achieve shared goals. It is clear that the proposal was refused ''.

Puglia region, summit on induced
On the Arcelor Mittal induced-contract crisis in Taranto, the Puglia Region convened a meeting at 3.30 pm on Monday 25 November through the occupation task force. The meeting will also serve to identify support measures for businesses. Michele Emiliano, governor of the Puglia region, will attend the meeting.