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"Fiat S.p.A." Registered Office: via Nizza 250, Turin Share capital ...

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pletely different position compared to VOLKSWAGEN,<br />

and the Company can be considered to have reached<br />

VOLKSWAGEN’s level now, on its own and risking a<br />

lot, going to America at an apparently bad time to<br />

acquire a company which had been managed by Ger-<br />

mans for ten years without ever producing results<br />

such as those that have been achieved in partner-<br />

ship with FIAT;<br />

he believes, in all humility and frankness, that<br />

the path followed by FIAT over the past nine years<br />

has been an acceptable one.<br />

<strong>Share</strong>holders gave a round of applause.<br />

The CEO Sergio MARCHIONNE<br />

recognized that more could have been done, but he<br />

asked that the Company be given the opportunity to<br />

move forward and create a future;<br />

he considers the level of financial resources<br />

maintained by the Group to be necessary, but<br />

agrees that the level of liquidity reported in FI-<br />

AT’s financial statements of 20.8 billion at year-<br />

end 2012 is very high;<br />

he observed that this level of liquidity is the<br />

result of several factors, firstly the continuing<br />

uncertainty at both the industrial and financial<br />

level, at least when it comes to managing European<br />

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