Huta Częstochowa steel mill sale suspended

Originally, the government had opted to commence final talks on the sale of the mill with the LNM Group rather than Ukraine's Donbass Industrial Union. This decision came as a severe blow to the Ukrainian concern, which has already launched an ambitious plan to expand into central Europe by taking over the Hungarian Dunaferr steel plant, and lead to the company threatening to go to court over the matter, believing its offer was better than LNM's. "Yesterday, I received information from the Treasury Ministry that because of how this privatization has developed and due to certain doubts...we will need to study everything, and that's why the privatization has been suspended. We will act in this matter in a very transparent manner," Kwaśniewski told a press conference while wrapping up a brief visit to Ukraine. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B1) A.Z.