Fiat buys the American company Chrysler and becomes the seventh global automobile group, but overseas, perhaps displaced by the coup by Sergio Marchionne, the news goes almost unnoticed by the press. The only one to give particular importance to the deal is the Financial Times, which at the beginning of the site underlines the shrewd move of the Italian-Canadian managing director, who "avoided speculation on the Chrysler IPO, after the announcement on Monday of an imminent listing on the Stock Exchange” of the American group.
The importance given by the financial site is weaker Bloomberg, which indeed in a video analysis wonders if “Did Marchionne really get what he wanted with this operation?”. On Wall Street Journal, in the European version of the site, the news that shook the beginning of 2014 does not find space among the top three, while on the New York Times, who is keen to point out that "of the three major US groups, Chrysler is the smallest", does not even appear among the 10 most read.
And in Europe? The Fiat-Chrysler operation finds even less clamor, as for example on the French Lefigaro.fr where you have to go halfway through the economic pages to find it nestled between two other Italian news: an interview with Mario Monti who says that France must remain the engine of Europe with Germany, and Venice which forbids transit to cruise ships. Also on Le Monde the news is given rather dryly and in a backward position, after the update on the fate of the Russian liner stuck in the ice of Antarctica.
Little prominence to the American conquest of Fiat also in the British, Spanish and German press, currently very busy following the stages of the Schumacher affair.
