The consequence was a significant decline in prices within the steel sector, which also affected the construction of plants.

However, the decline of the steel sector halted area road construction, and the entire project was not completed until 1989.

Has our European steel sector in recent years not been restructured very successfully?

What is happening in the steel sector could have been anticipated.

The next item is the Commission statement on the crisis in the steel sector.

I would remind you that, for several years now, subsidies in the steel sector have not been allowed.

There are specific rules in the steel sector as many people in this House know.

Yet we know that this year we will have lost 17, 000 jobs in the steel sector.

Let me take the example of the steel sector.

Countries like Poland and a few others are going to have to reorganise their steel sectors.