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a statement released after the pair met in Rome earlier on
Monday, Urso said his ministry and the automaker aimed to sign a
deal on Italian car production by the end of the month.
"The parties have agreed on the need to immediately intervene to
reverse the negative trend of the latest 20 years," Urso said.
Stellantis, Italy's major automaker, produced fewer than 700,000
vehicles in the country last year and in 2021, as it was hit by
a global shortage of microchips and other components.
According to the FIM-CISL metalworkers union, the group's output
in Italy is expected to rise to around 800,000 units this year.
Fiat Chrysler, which merged with France's PSA in early 2021 to
create Stellantis, produced over one million vehicles in Italy
for the last time in 2017.
Urso said he set out to Tavares a plan developed by the
government detailing production targets and how to reach them,
the need to expand the number of models produced in Italy and to
invest in R&D.
(Reporting by Giuseppe Fonte, writing by Federica Urso, editing
by Alvise Armellini/Keith Weir)
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