PARIS (Reuters) – The secretary general of the CGT, Sophie Binet, castigated the decarbonation plan presented by the steel giant ArcelorMittal on Friday for its Dunkirk site (North), believing that it was not up to expectations.
“These announcements are not up to the previously planned projects,” she said in an interview with the BFMTV channel.
ArcelorMittal, which plans to remove around 600 jobs in France due to the crisis that strikes the steel industry in Europe, confirmed its intention to invest 1.2 billion euros on Thursday in a first electric oven in Dunkirk in order to decarbonize this steelworks and, he says, ensure its future.
The group is however accused by the unions and certain leftist parties of wanting to disengage from France for the benefit of countries deemed more profitable.
“The best solution is a nationalization of ArcelorMittal France”, again asked for Sophie Binet, a project dismissed Tuesday by President Emmanuel Macron when he was questioned on the subject on TF1 by the CGT manager.
(Written by Claude Chendjou, edited by Blandine Hénault)
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