Lufthansa's offer for Ita arrived on the table of the Ministry of Via Venti Settembre last January and then the negotiation began. Cologne group is preparing to buy, through a reserved capital increase, a 40% stake for an outlay of just over 300 million euros.
The Minister of Economy and Finance, Giancarlo Giorgetti, will be in Rome tomorrow and will leave for Trento for the Festival of Economics on Friday. Mefal is the sole shareholder of Ita Airways.