COMPETITIVENESS COUNCIL : TAJANI WELCOMES LAKSHMI MITTAL'S COMMITMENTS.

• Position: Antonio Tajani

Enterprise and Industry Commissioner Antonio Tajani announced, on 19 February, that he has obtained a commitment from Lakshmi Mittal, president of the steel group ArcelorMittal, to a moratorium on restructuring until June 2013 - when the European Commission will adopt an action plan to bail out the steel sector.

Following a meeting of the High-Level Roundtable on the Future of the European Steel Industry, on 12 February, Tajani asked ArcelorMittal to suspend restructuring measures while waiting for the EU strategy to be published. On 19 February, at the close of a meeting between Tajani...