Chrysler plans to open an engineering center in Eastern Europe in either Romania, Poland or Russia, deputy executive Frank Klegon declared for Detroit Free Press, quoted by Mediafax. Chrysler already holds such a center in China, within a complex development program of the company's activities abroad.

By the end of the year, Chrysler plans to hire some 1,000 foreign experts, Klegon said in an interview for Detroit Free Press. Thus, the company will set up some excellency centers in China, India, Mexico and Eastern Europe and in the same time they will reduce their employees in the States and Canada by 25,000.