(Finance) – New meeting scheduled for Tuesday 14 May for the Minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti on the matter Italy-Lufthansa. In fact, a bilateral meeting on the dossier with the Vice President of the European Commission is scheduled for tomorrow in Brussels. Margrethe Vestager, responsible for Community Antitrust. The news came directly from a spokeswoman for the European Commission. The deadline for the EU decision on this plan was extended last Tuesday to July 4, after Lufthansa and Mef had submitted further documentation on the remedies requested by the Commission regarding its competition concerns.
Giorgetti has already met Vestager last April 25th. The minister will be in Brussels on Monday and Tuesday to participate in meetings Eurogroup And Ecofin. “I will be in Brussels again on Monday and Tuesday to try to definitively clarify the issue” which concerns the Ita-Lufthansa operation. “One thing is certain about Ita: within a month we will have the answer” from the European Commission, Giorgetti declared on the sidelines of the presentation of the League’s candidate lists for the next local elections in Modena.
Last Tuesday, on the occasion of the Lufthansa shareholders’ meeting, and the day after the new documents were sent to the EU, the CEO of the German group, Carsten Spohrhad said he was confident in a green light for the aggregation for the summer.