You may want to watch the name Daniel Kretinsky in this context, who’s not just a major investor of ThyssenKrupp but also controls the East German lignite business, as well as the media company Czech News Center (and a lot of other ventures).

His coal and coal-dependent businesses appear to be designed to extract the final bits of profit, harvest government subsidies, and ultimately leave the public to deal with the cost of his failed ventures (such as recultivating landscapes wounded by coal mining).