Huta Częstochowa's future still in the balance

The Treasury Ministry has three options now: wait several months for the EC's judgment, declare HCz bankruptcy, or carry on with the tender procedure. The latter is the most probable according to Deputy Treasury Ministry Andrzej Szarawarski, who assures that the decision regarding the mill's future will be taken this week. However, the mill's employees doubt the Minister's declaration and suspect that the government will not take any final decision by the time it leaves office. Consequently, HCz may enter the economic history books as the first company to go bankrupt despite the thriving situation in its sector. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B5; Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 17) K.J.