Filosa in Parliament: "The ‘roots’ of Stellantis are in Italy". Investments of 5 billion announced

Stellar “has its roots” in Italy, where it does not intend to sell factories or brands, starting from Maserati. The group is working on possible partnerships with some operators, starting from the industrial site of Cassinothe one most affected by redundancy fund. The Frosinone site is not for sale, nor is the Abruzzo site Atessa. A Pomigliano instead, up to 3 could be produced in the next few years e-car. While Mirafiori “our Italian and European home” will be the home of the new one 500 hybrid with its evolutions.

The CEO of Stellar, Antonio Filosadiscussed the group’s development plans for almost 2 and a half hours with the joint Industry Commissions of the Chamber and Senate, with a focus on individual Italian factories. 2025 saw car sales drop to their lowest levels in Italy, with just over 1.5 million registrations. The first months of 2026 appear to record a reversal of trend, albeit in the context of a difficult transition toelectric.

Comparison with the institutions

Deputies and senators appreciated the words of Filosa a “discontinuity”, noted in all interventions, in the approach compared to its predecessor Carlos Tavaresprotagonist in October 2024 of a parliamentary hearing characterized by at times rough tones in the interventions, which left neither the political forces nor the unions satisfied. There were several notes, with some requests for greater clarity on the implementation of the details of the plan, on the commitment to guarantee employment continuity and on the need for a conversion green of the factories.

Industrial vision for Italy

“For Italy we have a clear vision, which also involves the involvement of all Italian brands”, he explains Filosa. Then the manager argues: “Starting from Fiatour largest global brand by volume, continuing with Lancia. Alfa Romeo will continue to strengthen its distinctive positioning. And concluding with Maseratiwe are defining an ambitious plan that we will present to Modena by the end of the year”. Italy will be “the production hub of small cars, in the factories of Mirafiori e di Pomigliano; of medium-high range and luxury cars in the factories of Melfi, Cassino e Modena and commercial vehicles in the plant Atessa“. Filosa he underlines: “In this first year of work we have reversed the trend. We have reversed it by reorganizing ourselves into stronger regional structures”. In the first five months of 2026 “we recorded growth of almost 15% in sales, +16% in production and -30% in the use of redundancy fund“, data that does not represent “the sign of success but of a restart”.

Investments and competitiveness

Filosa remember the goal of Stellar that Italy “continues to be among the main protagonists of technological development. For this reason, also in 2025 we have invested around 1 billion euros in Italy in research and innovation. Over the next 5 years we plan to invest another 5 billion euros.”

Requests to politics and the EU

The request to the manager’s policy of Stellar remains that of acting on the high cost ofenergy and work, to recover competitiveness. “We need to introduce flexibility mechanisms in line with contemporary operational needs, as was done in Spain“, he argues Filosa. For the EU too, the request is for greater flexibility.

Political reactions

The replies in the Commission. “We are certainly in a different climate compared to the disconcerting hearing of Tavares. We ask for production certainties, guarantees of these investments in models. We obviously also ask for a guarantee on employment levels, including related industries”, says the M5s leader Giuseppe Conte.

More critical Marco Grimaldi of Avs: “The hearing of Filosa confirms what workers, technicians and related industries have been denouncing for years. Stellar it doesn’t make the Italian factories safe, it shuts them down one after the other.”

For the Action leader Carlo Calenda: “Filosa stands much better than Tavares and it certainly gave us a lot more data. After that, more than half of the increase in sales in Italy is actually made up of machine sales Leap motorChinese cars. The big problem remains the range because Maserati, Alfa Romeo e Lancia they went very badly.”

The Northern League member Alberto Bagnai he thanked Filosa for having “categorically denied the rumors that hypothesized a possible relocation to Poland of the plant’s production lines” by Atessa. (AGI) – Rome, June 17. – The opinion of the unions is more nuanced. For the Fiom: “No new developments have emerged. This is the confirmation of a situation that is still very critical and destined to remain so: the condition of the Cassinofor which there is not yet a defined project; that of Termoliwhich lost the gigafactory; and that of Modenanow emptied and still without a clear perspective”.

The evaluation is different Uilm: Filosa “confirms the commitments already undertaken on the relaunch of Italian production and provides some important elements of clarification, such as the billion euro investment in Atessafurther development a Modena linked to the brand Maseratithe finalization of the partnership a Pomigliano“. (AGI)