Stanjura: Plans exist to save jobs at Liberty Ostrava

The Czech minister of finance, Zbyněk Stanjura, said on Thursday that the government’s goal in connection with the Liberty Ostrava smelting works was to preserve its secondary output, meaning steel production, and a substantial number of jobs.

Liberty Ostrava went into bankruptcy in June of this year.

Mr. Stanjura, along with Industry and Trade Minister Jozef Sikela and Labour and Social Affairs Minister Marian Jurečka, held negotiations on a possible takeover of part of the smelter with representatives of the company Moravia Steel, which is interested in it, on Thursday.

The finance minister said Liberty must undergo modernisation with regard to the decarbonisation of Czech industry.