After meeting with Dg Competition, the extraordinary commissioner of Alitalia, Giuseppe Leogrande, has urgently summoned the trade unions for an update on Covid refreshments, lower than expected and on the announcement. https://www.eudebates.tv/debates/eu-policies/transport-and-travel/can-eu-tourists-make-travel-plans-for-summer-holidays/
Leogrande is waiting for the government to be formed to ask for another 200 million euros to keep the airline in flight pending the sale that continues to slip: Brussels has in fact just asked our country for greater discontinuity in the passage of assets from commissioner management to public Ita with the use of international calls for tenders and not a simple sale procedure to a single buyer. The money is used to carry on until the time of the sale e to pay salaries, already in danger from this month.
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Meanwhile, Brussels has “received a notification for compensation on Covid 19, but not for 200 million euros”, says the vice president of the EU Commission. Margrethe Vestager. “Now it is necessary to consider which specific routes are affected by the covid restrictions, in order not to run the risk of excessive compensation”, explained Vestager adding that “we are in contact with the Italian authorities on this”. The EU “strongly encourages” a discontinuity for the newco Ita, “otherwise a negative state aid judgment would pass to the new company“.
For Brussels it is necessary that the newco “is really a new company with a new credible business plan” and to verify it “there are several methods: the brand, the business plan, the employees “. In addition, the assessment of the EU antitrust on the two “big bridging loans” of 900 and 400 million “is almost complete”, announced Vestager.
Finally, “the new government’s approach to Alitalia does not concern me, my responsibility is that the judgments of the EU Commission must be respected regardless of the government. If aid has been distributed illegally, it will have to be recovered”, he said. the EU vice president, on the possible changes of line of the new Italian executive with Mario Draghi your Alitalia.
Alitalia, Leogrande convenes the unions. 200 million are also needed for salaries
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