Fiat makes mostly small, mid-market cars for Italy and southern Europe, and needs its factories to run at full capacity to generate decent profits.
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To my taste, Europe--notably Spain, Italy and southern France--is still the best bet for head-swiveling-double-take wine deals, but lots of other places are bottling them, too.
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Southern Italy continues to be the least prosperous area of Italy, and Western Europe.
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The two cities on Italy's southern coast were buried following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79.
Yet, as in Italy, the southern fringe can be ignored if other bits of the country are prospering.
Plati is not the only place in southern Italy that has seen an epidemic of bunker-building in recent years.
U.S. Navy vessels fired two cruise missiles at Yugoslavia Saturday afternoon, CNN's Martin Savidge reported from Bari, in southern Italy.
Every day, tiny earthquakes rock Mt Etna, which at 3, 300 meters high, dominates the island of Sicily in southern Italy.
He took five hours, 38 minutes, 17 seconds to complete the hilly 200km stage from Compobasso Chieti in southern Italy.
Flavia Pennetta and Francesca Schiavone claimed singles wins over Anna Chakvetadze and Svetlana Kuznetsova in Castellaneta Marina in southern Italy.
She toured fishing towns from Scotland to southern Italy, explaining on quaysides why fleets and catches were being cut to conserve stocks.
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Traditionally, mozzarella, that bouncy, grassy-fresh ball of a cheese, is made with the milk of the water buffalo in the Campania region of Southern Italy.
But for those of us who don't find ourselves on Italy's southern shores, selecting a wine to match with pizza can prove tricky.
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That is the question scores of scholars, scientists and business leaders hope to answer at Microgeneration 3 in southern Italy this week.
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The great-grandmother known affectionately as "Mama Africa" reportedly suffered a heart attack after performing at an anti-mafia concert Sunday in southern Italy.
He looks to southern Italy for lemons, except for a few winter months, when the French versions will do, and to Spain for almonds.
He has been living on probation in his hometown of Meta, southern Italy, and had to be granted special permission from the judge to attend.
After the kidnapping, remaining crew-members - operated by Augusta Offshore SpA, a Naples-based shipping company in southern Italy - had sailed the vessel to safety.
The only remaining question is whether Europe might be able to squeeze some Azeri gas into Greece and Southern Italy via the Trans Adriatic Pipeline.
This split between northern and southern Italy occasionally makes news, as in January when a northern engineering firm revealed that it could not fill 1, 500 vacancies.
The entire council of the city of Reggio Calabria in southern Italy has been sacked to stop it from being taken over by the mafia, officials say.
Paul Getty III was found in southern Italy after being kidnapped for five months, during which his right ear was cut off and sent to a Rome newspaper.
Among other things, prosecutors are looking into alleged links between League officials and mobsters from southern Italy, and a string of puzzling overseas investments, including one in Tanzania.
West Wales and the valleys are joined by Malta, two regions of Portugal and four regions of southern Italy as the only areas that became relatively poorer despite the investment.
The team from a hospital in Bari, southern Italy, compared the breath of 37 patients known to have bowel cancer with that of 41 "controls" who were thought to be healthy.
In December a company called Blue H Technologies, based in Oosterhout in the Netherlands, placed a half-size prototype turbine about 20km off the coast of southern Italy in water 108 metres deep.
Italy is famous for food as well as luxury: in January Princes, a British subsidiary of Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation, said it would buy 51% of a giant tomato-processing business in southern Italy.
This is Italy after all, so one of the major attractions is simply exploring nearby towns and villages and experiencing the seafood rich fare and wines of Southern Italy at countless authentic trattorias.
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So the tax authorities believe that they will have a very good idea what sum, for example, the average family of four in southern Italy will be required to spend to get by.
Meanwhile other Greek cities had established colonies around the western shores of the Mediterranean, the densest region of settlement being in southern Italy and Sicily, which became known as Magna Graecia, or Great Greece.
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