In his speech, he said the decision to admit Lithuania and six other former communist states would injectnewlifeinto the stale structure of the organisation.
At this low ebb, Fiat's chairman, Umberto Agnelli, brother of the legendary Gianni, who had died the year before, succumbed to cancer but not before identifying Sergio Marchionne, a 52-year-old Italian-Canadian, as the man to injectnewlifeinto Fiat.
If nothing else, it's going to inject some newlifeinto a product niche that until very recently had just started to look boring and short on new ideas.