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Urso: we plan to increase the car fund in the manoeuvre. Stellantis: we will not make collective redundancies in Italy

This was stated by the Minister for Enterprise and Made in Italy Adolfo Urso during the Stellantis Table at Mimit

by Redaction Rome

14 November 2024

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Adolfo Urso, ministro delle Imprese e del Made in Italy

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The maxi cut to the automotive fund in the manoeuvre
Urso: Stellantis takes social responsibility for car relaunch
"Commitments on resources and new models needed"
Manca (Stellantis): five models in Melfi between 2025 and 2026

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"Ecobonuses swoon the states but do not solve the problem. It is like emptying an ocean with buckets. This year we invested a billion euro in an agreement with Stellantis, which had claimed that the measure would increase production in Italy. Exactly the opposite happened and so, as announced, we will no longer propose it. We will allocate all the resources of the fund, which we plan to increase in the course of the manoeuvre, on the supply side, in support of companies, especially investments in the automotive sector'. This is what Enterprise and Made in Italy Minister Adolfo Urso said during the Stellantis Table at Mimit. "And we propose in our 'non-paper'," he added, "an EU automotive plan with incentives for demand, stable and long-lasting over time, with common resources for European consumers".

Urso therefore confirmed what Maurizio Tarquini, director general of Confindustria, reported on 13 November after the meeting with the government on the manoeuvre that lasted around four hours: 'Part of the resources cut to the automotive fund will be restored, but it is too early to say how much'.

The maxi cut to the automotive fund in the manoeuvre

The draft budget law defines 4.55 billion for the Automotive Fund managed by the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy (Mimit) for interventions until 2030. 1.2 billion remains available at this point: an 80 per cent cut. At the same time, with what at first glance appears to be a very clear-cut industrial policy orientation, probably also dictated by the current geopolitical scenarios, the government is focusing on the defence industry (development in the aeronautics sector, technology for national area defence, Fremm naval units, contributions to the maritime-national defence sector) for a total of over EUR 11.3 billion, spread however over a much longer time span, until 2039. The Fund, so far already used for about 3 billion out of the 8.7 billion originally allocated by the Draghi government, is used to finance both incentives for the purchase of low-emission cars and facilitations for the production chain, i.e. supply.

Trade unions: only 200 million in manoeuvre for automotive fund

"Of the cut in the stability law, they have only restored EUR 200 million for 2025, compared to a cut of more than EUR 4.6 billion. That is nothing." This was said by the Fiom CGIL national secretary in charge of the mobility sector, Samuele Lodi, at the end of the Stellantis table. 'The meeting was long but disappointing,' he added, explaining that the next table will also take place at Mimit on 16 December.

Urso: Stellantis takes social responsibility for car relaunch

"We ask Stellantis today to take social responsibility for the relaunch of the Italian car industry. We are asking for a real, meaningful and clear industrial plan, one that goes into detail about every plant in Italy and provides for a significant increase in investments in our country. This is the position of Sistema Italia, not just of the government. As the parliamentary motions approved in the Chamber of Deputies and the trade unions' strike itself show, there is a general agreement, a full unity of intent, from Parliament to the trade unions, from the regions to the component supply chain, we are all asking together that Stellantis make a concrete commitment to re-launch the car industry and safeguard jobs,' added Urso during the Stellantis Table at Mimit.

"Commitments are needed on resources and new models"

And again: 'We need precise indications and data, commitments on resources and new models, investments on research and training, on new production platforms and therefore on components. We need a clear and strategic Italian plan. We are willing to put in place what is necessary to support this effort, with appropriate national policies, including with regard to energy, and with appropriate European policies. We have changed the Euro 7 regulation, now we have more strength to change the path of the green deal. But we need to know now whether Stellantis believes in Italy and really bets on Italy. No more polemics, but also no more evasions'.

Manca (Stellantis): in Melfi 5 models between 2025 and 2026

'Stellantis does not intend to close any plants in Italy, just as it has no intention of making collective redundancies,' reiterated Giuseppe Manca, head of Human Resources at Stellantis Italia, illustrating the industrial plan for Italy at the table convened by Minister Adolfo Urso. Specifically on Melfi, Manca recalled that five models will arrive, specifying the timing of the launches: in 2025 the first Ds will come out in the first quarter and, in the third, the new electric Jeep Compass. In 2026 the second Ds car will arrive in the first quarter, in the second the Jeep Compass Hybrid and in the third the new Lancia Gamma.