The Meloni government – particularly Palazzo Chigi – is asking for an extraordinary effort from Italian companies. Italian companies are not avoiding – at least – a careful reading of the new Ilva dossier. The level of attention from the executive is very high, so much so that yesterday evening a new meeting was held among the ministers.
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Today the government meets the unions. Tomorrow – probably in two rounds – the government will meet the companies interested in small parts of the former Ilva and then the leaders of the representation and the more structured companies, to whom Chigi is asking to verify the conditions for the formation of a national consortium. Tomorrow, in talks with the government, should be the president of Viale dell’Astronomia Emanuele Orsini, the president of Federmeccanica Silvano Simone Bettini, the president of Federacciai Antonio Gozzi (and the upcoming number one of the steelmakers, Alessandro Banzato).
Italian industrialists – with the elimination from the table, carried out by the Milan judiciary, of the hot area, the fear of ending up like the Riva family has also ended – are preparing for tomorrow’s meeting with the willingness – say in unison the entrepreneurs interviewed by Il Sole 24 Ore – to analyze the new contextual conditions.
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The first issue concerns the new tender that the Undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council Alfredo Mantovano announced for September, cutting the wings – also with formal responses – from a regulatory and policy perspective to the Indians of Jindal who have insistently requested in recent days not to consider the old tender, which included the hot area, obsolete, but which was excluded by the Milan judiciary. The second issue – involving an electric furnace and significant rolling activity – concerns the supply of raw materials for rolling (billets for Taranto and coils for Novi Ligure and Cornigliano), which are currently subject to increasing customs blocks on their import from abroad. The third issue is the matter of public money. To build the DRI plant, one billion euros are needed, initially contained in a special purpose vehicle controlled by Invitalia and now reduced to 800 million euros: 200 million are missing and moreover the remaining amount has been reallocated, in the latest PNRR decree, for generic decarbonization works. Entrepreneurs are also clear that there are 570 million euros in development contracts. But they also know that these are currently tied to hot area activities (for example blast furnace 5) that will no longer exist. Furthermore, they also know that the mechanics of development contracts usually provide for 60 percent private money and 40 percent public money.
Yesterday, meanwhile, eight hours of strike were held called by the union federations Fim-Cisl, Fiom-Cgil, Uilm and Usb. Participation was not limited to steel plant workers but also significantly involved workers of contracting companies and the supply chain. During the strike, demonstrators occupied State Road 7, which passes in front of the Taranto steel plant, for an hour. And today the unions are going to Mimit for the first of four meetings convened by Minister Adolfo Urso on the steel plant. In the meeting, the unions announce, “we will bring proposals for extraordinary measures for employment and wage continuity along with the extension of asbestos-related social security benefits, early retirement, arduous work, and exit incentives.”
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