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Manufacturing in Serbia 塞尔维亚的制造业 Balkan legacy 巴尔干遗产 Fiat goes east to lower costs 菲亚特东迁降低成本 MASS-MARKET carmakers in western Europe are enduring car sales at their lowest since1993. 畅销的汽车制造商在西欧正忍受着自1993年以来的最低销量。 They are losing money on their assembly plants in their home countries, yet politics makes ithard to close them. 他们在本国组装厂赔钱，但政策又使得很难将它们关闭。 That has encouraged them to seek ways of manufacturing more cheaply inemerging-market states on Europe s periphery, to drive down their average costs. 这鼓励他们在欧洲外围国家寻找更便宜的新兴市场的方式来压低他们的平均成本。 Take Fiat, which lost 247m in the third quarter of this year. 菲亚特在今年第三季度亏损2.47亿。 Some 5,700 workers have been put onextended leave in Italy, and even in Poland Fiat has had to shed 1,450 jobs. 在意大利约5,700名工人休长假，在波兰菲亚特甚至不得不裁员1,450个工作岗位。 But its Serbian operation is expanding, and in just over a year has gone from zero tobecoming the country s largest exporter. | 
