Minister Calenda's "Calvary" is getting longer without Cyrenees able to give him breathing space and help him carry the cross of Italian steel. He's already complained about it himself. The silences or half-words of the ruling classes, entrepreneurs and political parties weakened him afterwards the trip that the Mayor of Taranto and the Governor of Puglia they stretched him inlast lap of the ILVA marathon.
The revenue stamps and the jungle of institutional appeals have given up in the hands of "localisms" the fate of the largest steel mill in Europe. So after the NO gas, the NO Tav, the NO Tap, the No Sthal have also appeared, de facto masters of the environmental levers and of the production methods capable of influencing the economic cycle of the Taranto iron and steel plant.
The discard to which he was forced the Minister allowed the convoy not to derail altogether though the Governor of Puglia keeps close to the stamps of the appeals and the times of the TAR to fully play its political and electoral game. If this were not the case, one would not understand a rigid, angular, at times contemptuous attitude, almost as a challenge towards the Government, towards Mittal's winning consortium with underscores of belated attention towards Jindal's losing offer; acts that have all the flavor of a further pretext to postpone everything to closed polls staying firmly at the table (to deal) with the Anglo-Indian entrepreneur.
It has been a long time since we saw a local administrator claiming to be at the table of the overall negotiation with an investor, moreover a foreigner. As Mittal will have to contend not only with the government, but also with Bari and Taranto. If necessary, the various suburban committees such as those of Tamburi will not fail to raise their voices. If he then wanted to replace Marcegaglia (prevented by the EEC) with some local investor, word got around that Intesa and CDP were ready to pay their subsidy instead. Thus, the policy that deludes itself into maintaining the Italian primacy in manufacturing with the sound of "pizzica" and widespread farms seems successful (at least conditioning).
The other side of Golgotha still leads to Piombino. Removing the implant from the Algerian Rebab tout-court will not be an easy undertaking in the wake of a long and perhaps even losing dispute. Pushing for it to work alongside professional steelworkers is an unrealistic path, considering that no sane "tondinaro" would be willing to inherit and share the obligations, constraints and clauses of the contract that gave the plant to businessman from Algiers. Modifying those clauses would mean canceling the tender that saw Rebab win and opening another one with uncertain results. The expectation that one breathes in the world of steel is therefore another braking on Piombino to open the conditions of a stew which sees the wire rod mill and the rail plant at the center of interest and, in fact, the only future of the plant. If anything, we will see, over time an electric oven. Not more.
