Overview

• Production at Novi Ligure has fully halted due to depleted steel supplies, mirroring Taranto’s scaled-back output as only one of four blast furnaces remains operational.
• More than 550 Novi Ligure workers and thousands at Taranto are on cassa integrazione, with only maintenance teams on site while awaiting government direction.
• Minister Adolfo Urso’s draft program calls for replacing blast furnaces with three electric units, deferring gas-fired upgrades until after the summer break.
• Privatization negotiations are on hold pending the August 12 program agreement, which will define decarbonization schedules and future ownership structure.
• Environmental activists in Taranto briefly forced Mayor Piero Bitetti to submit and then retract his resignation as protests over health and safety concerns intensify.