{"id":42321,"date":"2025-10-21T09:37:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.italpassion.fr\/?p=42321"},"modified":"2025-10-21T09:37:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:37:43","slug":"stellantis-new-ceo-visits-italian-trade-unions-and-addresses-brussels-we-need-to-review-european-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.italpassion.fr\/en\/stellantis\/le-nouveau-ceo-de-stellantis-rend-visite-aux-syndicats-italiens-et-sadresse-a-bruxelles-nous-devons-revoir-la-reglementation-europeenne\/","title":{"rendered":"Stellantis' new CEO visits Italian unions and addresses Brussels: \"We need to review European regulations!\""},"content":{"rendered":"
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Monday, October 20, 2025 will remain a symbolic date for Mirafiori workers. For the first time since his appointment, the new CEO of Stellantis<\/a>Antonio Filosa, travelled to Turin to meet Italian trade unions. It was a long-awaited visit, which had been called for years, even in the days of Carlos Tavares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A long-awaited visit to Mirafiori<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While Stellantis recently confirmed a colossal $13 billion investment in the United States, the situation in Italy remained marked by doubt. Unions were calling for a concrete gesture to boost domestic production, which had been at half-mast for several years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Filosa didn't come empty-handed: he announced 400 new hires at the Mirafiori plant to support production of the new Fiat 500 hybrid, which will start in November. This decision will enable the Turin plant to move into a new production phase in February 2026, and eventually to produce 150,000 cars a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"It's still not enough, but it's all we can do given the context,\" he acknowledged, hailing it as \"an important step for employment in Italy\".<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This is the first time in almost thirty years that Mirafiori has seen a comparable wave of hiring since the late 1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A political message to Brussels<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

But beyond this symbolic announcement, the heart of Filosa's message lay elsewhere: the European regulatory framework must change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"We need to review European regulations, which do not take account of the reality of the market and the industrial context\", said the Stellantis boss, calling on Italian trade unions to support this approach to European institutions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In his view, carbon neutrality targets and a ban on the sale of combustion engines by 2035 are simply \"unrealistic\". He advocates a more pragmatic approach, based on technological neutrality: \"We have to allow our customers to choose from the full range of vehicles they want, whether electric, hybrid or internal combustion. This is the only way to get production going again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Factories still in limbo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While Mirafiori foresees a revival with the 500 hybrid, other sites are still waiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n