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Port Talbot steel plant in Wales, reportedly losing around £1 million per day (Photo: Justin)

EU seen as both saviour and culprit of UK steel crisis

'Brussels' is being seen as both the cause, and a possible solution to Britain's steel crisis.

On Thursday (31 March), the European Steel Association, a Brussels-based lobby group, called on the European Union to raise anti-dumping tariffs to make Chinese imports less competitive.

That same day, a British eurosceptic member of the European Parliament Nigel Farage said that only if Britain votes to leave the EU in a referendum later this spring can the UK's steel industry and the a...

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Port Talbot steel plant in Wales, reportedly losing around £1 million per day (Photo: Justin)

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