Premier Giuseppe Conte has
invited his ministers to a "team-building" dinner after a
cabinet meeting later on Thursday, sources said.
The meeting is set to look at proposals to solve the
emergency regarding the former ILVA steel group after
ArcelorMittal said it wants to back out of a contract to take it
over, including the troubled Taranto plant.
The government is also faced with the problem of Alitalia,
with the deadline for offers to save the former flag-carrier
that is in extraordinary administration set to expire.
Conte's government, based on an 'unnatural' alliance between
the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S), the centre-left
Democratic Party (PD) and two smaller groups, has frequently
been hit by inner turmoil.
It was formed after nationalist League leader Matteo Salvini
pulled the plug on Conte's first government in August.
That executive was based on an alliance between the M5S and
the League.
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