Industry ministry sources on
Thursday denied that an accord between ArcelorMittal and
commissioners of the former ILVA steelworks will be signed on
Friday.
They said no accord would be signed within the coming week.
Earlier a legal source said the purported accord includes
modification of the rental and acquisition contract to renovate
the troubled steel plant in Taranto, as well as the cancellation
of a civil suit in the Milan court.
"The impression is that they came to an agreement on
everything," the source said.
The Taranto plant, Europe's largest steelworks, employs some
8,000 of the former ILVA group's 11,000 workers.
It has been linked to higher-than-usual cancer rates in
Taranto.
Franco-Indian group ArcelorMittal last year withdrew from an
accord to keep the ex-ILVA group going.
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