Air France-KLM and Alitalia break off negotiations

Air France-KLM announced on April 2nd that it was cutting-off negotiations with the Alitalia unions on the company's buy-out. Massimo Riva writes that the deal would have been suicide for Alitalila, and lays the blame on the right-wing which has done everything to keep the negotiations running. "The decisive day for the future of Alitalia began with the unions more ready than ever to march into battle, ready to slam the door on Air France's proposals. The same day ended with Mister Spinetta [CEO of Air France-KLM] getting up from the negotiating table and slamming the door behind him ... . We don't need the Alitalia case to recognise that Berlusconi is a master of fantastic and unfounded promises. His positions on this matter respond to the demagogue's electoral base, something that Air France understood since the beginning."

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