Skellefteå Council Urges State Action on Northvolt Factory Shutdown

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Skellefteå Council Urges State Action on Northvolt Factory Shutdown
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The municipality of Skellefteå state support when production at Northvolt's battery factory stops this summer. If 4,500 people are laid off, it is not the municipality's responsibility to take responsibility - it is the state's municipal councilor Lorents Burman.

The Municipal Councilor is critical of the lack of national presence.

A municipality cannot reasonably be left to deal with Sweden's biggest bankruptcy on its own, he says.

The state now needs to, among other things, ensure the competence that exist among the previously employed and which are now at risk of leaving Sweden, according to Burman.

But also initially be ready to take economic responsibility to ensure continued production in Skellefteå.

A proposal for an action plan to enhance the union's strategic self-sufficiency in battery production is currently on the EU Commission's table. This includes a proposed support package totaling 7-8 billion euros.

This money would really be needed right here and now, says Burman and continues:

The critical thing is that it will take for the EU to be able to make a decision on this. Then, the state in Sweden could step in and guarantee an advance to maintain the position in Skellefteå.

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