Source: European Parliament
Priority question for written answer P-001882/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Anthony Smith (The Left), Manon Aubry (The Left), Marina Mesure (The Left), Damien Carême (The Left), Emma Fourreau (The Left), Leila Chaibi (The Left), Arash Saeidi (The Left)
On 23 April 2025, the ArcelorMittal France group announced the closure of 636 jobs at seven sites in France, a few months after having already cut 135 jobs at Denain and Reims. This decision comes after the suspension of its European decarbonisation projects, including the flagship hydrogen furnace project in Dunkirk, despite EUR 850 million being promised in grants and the allocation of EUR 622 million by the state since 2013. In addition, the company chose to invest almost a billion dollars in a new plant in the United States, rather than in Europe.
Given the strategic importance of the steel sector for European industry and sovereignty, as well as the company’s evident willingness to offshore its activities and leave Europe, does the Commission intend to:
- 1.Support the decarbonisation of the European steel industry by granting public aid under strict environmental and social criteria, as proposed in the Clean Industrial Deal, in particular as regards a ban on redundancies when a company that received support is making a profit?
- 2.Require European companies to use European-made steel?
- 3.Encourage state intervention, through nationalisation, in companies in strategic sectors, such as the steel industry?
Submitted: 12.5.2025