MESEBERG, Germany (Reuters) – Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Monday the government would be able to manage the consequences that would result from the withdrawal of Atlantia’s
“We need to take a decision, this thing has been dragging on too long,” Conte said, speaking in Meseberg, Germany, alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Conte said the cabinet would meet on Tuesday to take a decision on the matter.
The government has been threatening to withdraw Atlantia’s lucrative concession since the collapse of a bridge in Genoa run by its Autostrade per l’Italia unit in 2018, which caused the death of 43 people.
(Reporting by Angelo Amante, editing by Gavin Jones)
