https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed ArcelorMittal said on Monday it was pulling out of the purchase of Italy's struggling steel firm Ilva after parliament scrapped a legal protection deemed necessary to undertake crucial environmental work without criminal liability. https://www.thelocal.it/20191104/arcelormittal-pulls-out-of-deal-to-buy-ilva-italy-toxic-steel-plant-taranto Mon, 04 Nov 2019 18:18:34 +0100 arcelormittal-pulls-out-of-deal-to-buy-ilva-italy-toxic-steel-plant-taranto Iconic Italian chocolate maker Pernigotti says it wants to move production to Turkey. Italy wants to keep the company at home, but its approach to bailing out struggling brands ends up doing more economic harm than good, argues corporate law specialist Eugenio Vaccari. https://www.thelocal.it/20181113/italy-chocolate-pernigotti-turkey Tue, 13 Nov 2018 12:44:09 +0100 italy-chocolate-pernigotti-turkey Italians living near one of the biggest steelworks in Europe have appealed to the government to protect their health after a dramatic photo showed water near the plant running red. https://www.thelocal.it/20171115/red-water-ilva-steelworks-taranto Wed, 15 Nov 2017 11:48:14 +0100 red-water-ilva-steelworks-taranto European Union anti-trust authorities have opened an investigation into global steel giant ArcelorMittal's bid to buy struggling Italian steel producer Ilva, officials said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20171109/eu-opens-probe-into-arcelormittal-purchase-of-ilva Thu, 09 Nov 2017 10:20:03 +0100 eu-opens-probe-into-arcelormittal-purchase-of-ilva Schools in part of the southern Italian city of Taranto were closed Wednesday on health grounds in an unprecedented step sparked by concerns over wind-born toxic emissions from the giant Ilva steelworks. https://www.thelocal.it/20171025/italian-schools-closed-toxic-wind-ilva-steel-plant Wed, 25 Oct 2017 18:18:40 +0200 italian-schools-closed-toxic-wind-ilva-steel-plant Workers at the troubled Ilva steel plant are staging a one-day strike over plans for almost 4,000 jobs to be cut as part of a takeover by a consortium led by the global steel giant ArcelorMittal. https://www.thelocal.it/20171009/workers-at-troubled-italian-steel-plant-strike-over-huge-job-cuts Mon, 09 Oct 2017 14:50:28 +0200 workers-at-troubled-italian-steel-plant-strike-over-huge-job-cuts A consortium led by global steel giant ArcelorMittal said on Friday the Italian authorities had cleared it to buy struggling steel producer Ilva, but thousands of jobs are threatened. https://www.thelocal.it/20170617/arcelormittal-gets-green-light-to-buy-italys-ilva Sat, 17 Jun 2017 12:40:54 +0200 arcelormittal-gets-green-light-to-buy-italys-ilva A consortium led by global steel giant ArcelorMittal has been chosen to take over Italy's huge but struggling steel producer Ilva, the Italian government said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20170606/arcelormittal-group-wins-italy-steel-giant-takeover Tue, 06 Jun 2017 12:32:05 +0200 arcelormittal-group-wins-italy-steel-giant-takeover AcciaItalia, a consortium built around the Indian company Jindal South West Steel, has improved its offer to take over Italy's giant but struggling Ilva steel producer, media reports said on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.it/20170604/acciaitalia-consortium-improves-bid-for-ilva-reports Sun, 04 Jun 2017 21:16:54 +0200 acciaitalia-consortium-improves-bid-for-ilva-reports Both takeover bids for Italy's giant Ilva steel producer envisage slashing at least 40 percent of its 14,200 jobs, unions said on Tuesday after talks with the government and administrators. https://www.thelocal.it/20170531/up-to-40-percent-of-jobs-could-be-slashed-at-italys-ilva-steelworks Wed, 31 May 2017 10:55:01 +0200 up-to-40-percent-of-jobs-could-be-slashed-at-italys-ilva-steelworks Italian businessman Adriano Riva, whose family owned the bankrupt Ilva steel firm, was handed a two-and-half-year term on Wednesday after transferring 1.3 billion euros ($1.5 billion) siphoned off from the company. https://www.thelocal.it/20170525/italian-steel-magnate-to-end-up-behind-bars Thu, 25 May 2017 14:37:19 +0200 italian-steel-magnate-to-end-up-behind-bars The rate of cancer among children in Taranto, southern Italy - home to the Ilva steel plant - is 30 percent higher than the national average, the first report into cancer rates in the region shows. https://www.thelocal.it/20160919/steel-plants-blamed-for-high-child-cancer-rate-in-southern-italy Mon, 19 Sep 2016 12:45:53 +0200 steel-plants-blamed-for-high-child-cancer-rate-in-southern-italy In the fields around Taranto, Puglia, more and more farmers are sowing fields of cannabis in a bid to save their precious soil which has been rendered unsafe thanks to years of pollution from Europe's biggest steel plant. https://www.thelocal.it/20160603/puglias-farmers-sow-fields-of-cannabis-to-save-soils-from-steel-plant-pollution Fri, 03 Jun 2016 15:00:37 +0200 puglias-farmers-sow-fields-of-cannabis-to-save-soils-from-steel-plant-pollution The EU opened an inquiry on Wednesday into Italian state aid for the struggling Ilva steel works, the largest in the bloc and one of its most polluting, the European Commission said. https://www.thelocal.it/20160120/eu-opens-probe-into-italian-aid-for-polluting-ilva-steelworks Wed, 20 Jan 2016 13:01:14 +0100 eu-opens-probe-into-italian-aid-for-polluting-ilva-steelworks A mega-trial opened on Tuesday of industrialists, politicians and officials blamed for toxic emissions from the Ilva steel plant in southern Italy that caused at least 400 premature deaths - only to be immediately adjourned because of a procedural mix-up. https://www.thelocal.it/20151021/trial-over-italys-toxic-steel-plant-on-hold Wed, 21 Oct 2015 10:01:47 +0200 trial-over-italys-toxic-steel-plant-on-hold In the impoverished city of Taranto, work that has provoked cancer is preferable to starving. https://www.thelocal.it/20150401/italys-steel-workers-risk-cancer-or-hunger Wed, 01 Apr 2015 11:08:29 +0200 italys-steel-workers-risk-cancer-or-hunger Italy's parliament approved on Tuesday a government decree temporarily nationalizing the country's loss-making Ilva steel plant, one of the most polluting in Europe, in the hope of finding a new owner. https://www.thelocal.it/20150303/italy-to-nationalize-ilva-steel-plant Tue, 03 Mar 2015 18:47:00 +0100 italy-to-nationalize-ilva-steel-plant Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Sunday floated the idea of nationalising during "two or three years" the country's loss-making Ilva steel plant, one of Europe's most polluting. https://www.thelocal.it/20141201/renzi-moots-nationalisation-of-troubled-steel-plant Mon, 01 Dec 2014 09:17:00 +0100 renzi-moots-nationalisation-of-troubled-steel-plant ArcelorMittal has teamed up with Italy's Marcegaglia to bid for Ilva, a loss-making Italian steel plant at the centre of a major environmental scandal, the target company confirmed on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20141126/mittal-bids-for-scandal-hit-italian-steel-plant Wed, 26 Nov 2014 18:06:00 +0100 mittal-bids-for-scandal-hit-italian-steel-plant Italian steel giant Ilva said it was being forced to suspend operations at seven plants on Friday and send 1,400 workers home because of a long-running legal row. https://www.thelocal.it/20130913/toxic-factory-shut-over-legal-row Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:29:33 +0200 toxic-factory-shut-over-legal-row