Minister Adolfo Urso convenes the unions while the prosecutor blocks the plant. The future of Italian steel is at risk
On May 21, a decisive meeting will be held at Palazzo Chigi. The Business Minister and Made in Italy,Adolfo Ursohas convened unions and ministers to take stock of a crisis that risks overwhelming the former Ilva definitively. Yet another summit, yet another table, but with an agenda he hasthe urgency of a showdown.
“We must draw the consequences of what happened“, Urso said. And what happened, unfortunately, is not just an industrial accident. It is yet another institutional short circuit. AND The photograph of a country that cannot defend its production system. AND The last stage of an infinite crisis In which politics, bureaucracy and justice intertwined in a knot that no one has succeeded – or wanted – dissolve.
THE’ Taranto It was seized by the Prosecutor for environmental reasons. Urso talks about ” very serious institutional anomaly“And openly accuses the magistrates of having blocked the technical interventions required urgently to save the plant after the fire of May 7. The documents, says the minister, would show that the reports were there. they remained unanswered.
The result is that The production of steelworks will be halved. Immediately. Four thousand workers in layoffs, with a request that could rise to five thousand five hundred.Entire families in uncertainty. The frozen survey chain. Suspended industrial orders. And the agreement with Baku Steel, the Azero group that seemed ready to detect ILVA, is now at risk.Who would invest in a plant under seizure, still, full of legal unknowns and without certainties?
Here is the point:While the government is looking for industrial partners, the judiciary intervenes with a tense leg. While the commissioners discuss with the unions, the magistrates put the seals.The state makes war on its own. And the former Ilva, in the meantime, sinks. The result? Commissioners on commissioners. Breakage, appeals, reversalizations never sufficient.A 100 million bridge loan is about to arrive, but it will serve to guarantee perhaps three months of survival. Then, again, we will talk about closures, redundancies, reorganizations. And in the meantimeItalian steelworks lose competitivenessalso strangled by the cost of energy:+40% compared to the European average. An abyss that makes any serious industrial plan impossible. There is not only Taranto at risk. The situation is also dramatic in Piombino.JSW Steel Italy and Liberty Magona workers proclaimed strike for May 23rd. They denounce minimal productivity and the concrete risk of financial collapse.
Italian steel vocabilizes. And with it the idea of an industrial policy worthy of a country of the G7. Urso is right on an essential point:In constitution, the right to work and that of health have equal dignity. One must not prevail over the other. But for years Taranto has been managed as if the work were sacrificable, a side effect.But if you do not change course, the only steel that we will see will be that of the closed gates.
