Government played its part, not Stellantis - Urso

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 22 - Business and Made in Italy Minister Adolfo Urso told a meeting in Rimini on Thursday that Stellantis has to relaunch the automotive sector in Italy, noting that "the government played its part, Stellantis didn't".
    In particular, the minister asked the carmaker to provide "a response shortly" to the government on the project to build a battery-making plant in Termoli, saying it would otherwise invest resources from the post-Covid Nattional Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNNR) "elsewhere".
    Automotive Cells Company, a battery joint venture in which Stellantis is the largest investor, plans to build three gigafactories in Europe but has announced it is halting plans for two of them, in Italy and Germany.
    Meanwhile, the Secretary General of labour union CISL Luigi Sbarra on Thursday, speaking on the sidelines of the 45th edition of the gathering in Rimini organized by Catholic organisation Comunione e Liberazione (Communion and Liberation, CL), said that an estimated 25,000 Stellantis jobs are at risk in 2025.
    In the first semester of 2024, he said, "the group's production of vehicles decreased by 25% compared to 2023".
    "Concern has been expressed in nearly all Italian plants, including in some in which redundancy funds are about to expire and, if no interventions are made through legislation aimed at extending them, we risk losing 25,000 jobs in 2025", he concluded. (ANSA).