Decarbonization
Klingbeil wants to fight for industrial workplaces
The green conversion of two steelworks has stalled. A decision by ArcelorMittal creates uncertainty. SPD boss Klingbeil makes a suggestion.
The SPD chairman Lars Klingbeil is committed to the preservation of the jobs for the “green” conversion of the steel industry in Germany. “We are fighting for every industrial workplace in Germany,” said the Federal Minister of Finance at the SPD Brandenburg State Party Conference in Cottbus. “Let us find solutions now.” To do this, he appealed to Federal Minister of Economics Katherina Reiche (CDU).
ArcelorMittal Europe had announced on Thursday that plans would be given up to switch the flat steel works in Bremen and Eisenhüttenstadt to climate -neutral production without coal burning. The investments could not be continued due to the market situation and the lack of economy of a CO2-reduced steel production. The group also does not use government funding.
SPD boss suggests the summit
Klingbeil called – straightened to rich – to a kind of steel summit. “Please invite the works councils, corporate management, the two prime ministers who are affected,” he said. “I also like to support this as finance minister.” The workplaces for green hydrogen would have to be created in Germany.
The Federal Ministry of Economics had regretted the decision of ArcelorMittal and pointed out that no state funds had yet flowed. At the SPD state party conference, SPD boss Klingbeil and Brandenburg’s Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke also wanted to speak to Dirk Vogeler, the works council chairman of Arcelormittal in Eisenhüttenstadt.
dpa
Source: Stern
