"I think the refusal of Fs to come to the Commission for a hearing is incomprehensible." This was stated by the Economic Development Minister, Stefano Patuanelli, speaking at the Chamber Transport Commission on the Alitalia decree. "I will talk about it with Minister De Micheli", underlined Patuanelli, adding that it is "possible for Ferrovie to be further involved in Alitalia" and how he is "worried. If it had been easy to solve this problem we will not be here in 2008". The fact that there is a further involvement of the Railways I think is possible and necessary, "he said." Being the head of the group, he will be able to say what happened with the other members interested in setting up the consortium, "the minister added, specifying that the decision anyway" it is up to the commissioner ".
The Alitalia buyer has not yet been "identified", he then assured the minister that he denied the thesis "to give the company to Lufthansa". "There are opportunities to revive the company - he underlined - but the cost of personnel is not what determines the loss and the stew is not a response to the market". "On the cost front there are many elements on which to intervene". "It is not excluded that there is public intervention even in this phase of the procedure," he argued, stressing that one cannot "throw away what has been done".
As for Atlantia, Patuanelli explained: "No one put the gun on anyone's head to propose to be part of the consortium, it was a free market choice made by a private company, so we thought there was a path towards that dossier, with interest on that dossier and that's it. The choice was another, we took note of it on November 20. " "Alitalia loses almost 2 million euros every month" so "the new single commissioner will have the task, if he deems it appropriate, to propose changes to the transfer plan and will have the task, if he deems it appropriate, to limit the part "costs.
The MEF "will be able to decide if it wants to enter the game" Alitalia, said Patuanelli, explaining that "the provision that the Ministry of Economy and Finance nevertheless enters the newco" has not been removed. In fact, with the decree "we have only released a portion of the extraordinary administration cash to guarantee greater liquidity".
"The outgoing commissioners have not yet received a penny for what they have done so far."
Delta and Lufthansa have been available to be audited, after the Christmas break, in the Transport commission to the Chamber on the examination of the Alitalia decree while unavailability was expressed by Atlantia, the minister announced, adding that also the Transport Authority has given his willingness to be heard. Instead Ferrovie has given the availability to send a written memory. "Some routes should be revised, they do not have a high value but a high cost". And to Salvini's criticisms he replies: "We have very clear ideas".