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News from the Business Community
- IKEA, one of the world’s best companies for women in 2025 Business France Nordics is hiring two interns starting in January 2026
- evroc teams up with Blykalla for Sweden’s first nuclear-powered data centers
- Marcus Wandt has been appointed as head of Group Strategy and Technology to SAAB
- H&M ranked as number one in sustainability
- Benoît Tanguy awarded “Industry Personality of the Year 2025”
- Acne Studios invests in a new headquarter in Paris
- Voi is back in Paris

Eco Bulletin Board
- Sweden’s National Defence Industry Strategy, now available in French and English
- Congratulations to our French Nobel Prize winners of 2025
- Paris ranks as the 3rd largest AI ecosystem
- French-Swedish Workshop on AI

Insights from Brussels
- Newsletter flash from our member KREAB in Brussels

Culture
- Prince Daniel Opens Tarik Kiswanson’s “The Relief” at the Swedish Institute in Paris

• Sophie Maillard
• Danielle Kebbon, Interior Architect

• Kajetan Krynicki, Business Client Advisor, Banque Populaire Rives de Paris
• Lova Dunghed, Sales assistant, Gudrun Sjödén
• Lyydia Kilkki, Communications Manager, Ayvens (Société Générale Group)
• Simon Poulet, Engineer, AWS

Get ready for an inspiring afterwork this November.

Our guest speaker Sabrina Pantier, Managing Director at Husqvarna France will share her personal journey and reflections on leadership, providing valuable insights on how to foster more inclusive practices in today’s professional world.

The evening will take place in a relaxed afterwork format, starting with networking, followed by the presentation, and ending with informal discussions over drinks.

At CCSF.

The French-Swedish Business Day will be celebrating the Chamber’s 110th anniversary in 2025, a historic milestone testifying to the strong and sustainable relations between our countries and businesses. 2025 is also the 10th anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement, signed at Cop21. This is an occasion to blend historical legacy with forward-thinking sustainability and business strategies for a competitive Europe.

The French-Swedish Business Day will take place in Paris on December 1st at the historic premises of Banque de Suède et de Paris, Place Vendôme.
 

Savourez du glögg et des spécialités de Noël suédoises, laissez-vous enchanter par les chants de la Sainte-Lucie et découvrez l’exposition-vente de cristallerie suédoise d’Art of Crystal.

Une belle occasion de se retrouver, d’échanger et de célébrer ensemble la fin de l’année.

Sur invitation, réservé aux membres CCSF.

Cette année, à l’occasion de son traditionnel dîner de Noël, la CCSF AuRa accueillera Pierre Nieuwyaer, avocat et nouveau membre du comité, pour une intervention sur le thème  « des enjeux liés aux technologies et aux données. »

Une soirée conviviale et inspirante pour clôturer l’année autour d’un dîner franco-suédois à Lyon.

Le dîner se tiendra le 11 décembre 2025 à 19h00 au Restaurant Frisettes, 76 rue Mazenod, Lyon 3e.

L’invitation sera envoyée prochainement.

Together with Swedish Policy Forum, the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in France will host a seminar with Martin Gelin, an acclaimed Swedish author and journalist, on the theme of Soft Power.

Recently published in over 20 countries, Gelin’s latest book explores how nations use culture, values, and storytelling to shape global influence.
 

IKEA ranks as number five on Forbes’ annual list “World’s Top Companies for Women”. To create the list, Forbes, together with Statista, conducted a survey answered by approximately 120,000 women working for multinational corporations.

The survey included questions such as whether respondents would recommend their employer, to rate their organization on both general workplace practices (such as salary and working conditions) and gender-specific issues including pay equity, differences in opportunities between genders, management’s response to discrimination concerns, and parental leave policies.

Swedish evroc, CCSF member, is building Europe’s hyperscale cloud and critical AI infrastructure. The company has its headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, with development offices in Sophia Antipolis, France, and London, the United Kingdom. By 2030, evroc aims to operate 10 hyperscale data centers, employing thousands of people across Europe.

In the context of an increasing use of AI, putting pressure on our energy resources, evroc, Blykalla and Studsvik partner to explore how to power this digital infrastructure with sustainable fossil-free energy. Specifically, the enterprises explore the development of Sweden’s first nuclear-powered data centers.

The aim is to combine the building of evrocs hyperscale cloud and AI infrastructure with Blykalla’s Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and Studsvik’s licensed nuclear site in Nyköping. The project will examine the commercial and technical feasibility of co-locating data centers and SMRs at Studsvik’s licensed site. 

The agreement aims to “establish Sweden as a frontrunner, leveraging evroc’s digital infrastructure, Studsvik’s licensed site, and Blykalla’s advanced SMR technology.” Moreover, Mattias Åström, founder and CEO of evroc says “The ever-growing demand for AI underscores the urgent need to rapidly deploy massive hyperscale AI infrastructure. Through our collaboration with Blykalla and Studsvik, we are exploring a model where Sweden can lead in building climate-neutral digital infrastructure".

Marcus Wandt, currently Chief Innovation Officer at Saab, has been appointed Head of Group Strategy and Technology new member of Saab’s Group Management. His new position will take effect on November 1st.

Marcus Wandt is a former Swedish Air Force fighter pilot and astronaut, recognized for his 2024 mission to the International Space Station with the European Space Agency.

We are happy to welcome Marcus in Paris on the 1st of December as a panellist in the French-Swedish Business Summit.

In the ranking of ‘What Fuels Fashion’ by Fashion Revolution, H&M Group ranks as number one for their public disclosure of climate and energy related actions. 

The report studies 200 of the world’s largest fashion brands' climate and energy related policies, practices and impacts of their operations and supply chains. Brands are scored on their transparency across five areas: accountability, decarbonisation, energy procurement, financing decarbonisation, and just transition & advocacy. H&M Group scored a total of 71%.
 

Benoît Tanguy, Managing Director of Scania France, Chairman of the International Trade Association for Automobiles and Motorcycles (CSIAM) and board member CCSF, has been nominated Industry Personality of the Year 2025 by the French Bodywork Federation (Fédération Française de Carrosserie  - FFC).

He will receive the award on 19th November 19 during the Solutrans Gala Dinner in Lyon, in recognition of his leadership and commitment to advancing the energy transition in road transport.

All our congratulations to Benoît!

Sweden’s National Defence Industry Strategy, now available in French and English

As the global security situation in the world continues to deteriorate, the Swedish Ministry of Defence states that a strong defence industry is essential for Europe to take greater responsibility for its own security and defence. Thus, in June, the ministry published its Defence Industry Strategy.

This strategy has now, since October become available in both French and English.
 
The strategy focuses on three key areas: innovation, production and cooperation. According to the Minister of Defence, Pål Jonsson, the strategy aims to contribute to more innovation, increased production and a better cooperation with the industry.
 

This year the French takes home both the Nobel Prize in Physics and in the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economics Science.

The French physicist, Michel Devoret, alongside John Clarke and John M. Martinis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit”.

The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to the French economists Philippe Aghnion together with his colleagues Joel Mokyr and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth”. 

In the global index of startup ecosystems “Global Tech Ecosystem Index 2025”, conducted by Dealroom, Paris ranks as 3rd largest AI ecosystem.

Dealroom evaluates startup ecosystems in 288 cities across 69 countries. Each ecosystem is evaluated based on investment, innovation, talent, and outcome.

On 7th October 2025, the Commission presented a proposal on addressing the negative trade-related effects of global overcapacity on the Union steel market, invoking the need to safeguard the EU steel industry against dumping. In line with the WTO rules, the Commission's proposal aims to limit tariff-free import volumes, increase the level of out-of-quota duty, and strengthen traceability.

The proposal is motivated by the ongoing crisis of the EU steel sector, which is subject to continuous import pressure resulting from a persistent global overcapacity of steel production. The Commission argues that this pressure could undermine the industry’s ability to make essential investments into decarbonisation. The problem is likely to intensify as countries, including the United States, adopt protective measures that divert surplus global steel toward the EU market.

Similar to the current safeguards, the new trade protection mechanism for steel will introduce a system of tariff-rate quotas (TRQ) to protect the EU steel industry from imports. It will significantly reduce the available duty-free quotas by 47% compared to 2024 levels. The total level of TRQs will be based by applying the 2013 steel import share of 13% applied to 2024 demand levels, yielding 18.3 million tonnes (down from currently 33 million tonnes). The Regulation will also empower the Commission to allocate country-specific quotas for each product category based on exporters’ import shares from 2022 to 2024. The out-of-quota tariff will double from currently 25% to 50%, aligning with the general Section 232 US import tariff on steel.

The Commission proposes to not apply the quotas to EEA-EFTA countries Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein which would exclude them from the scope of the Regulation. It thereby upholds the special treatment granted to the EEA-EFTA countries as part of the EU steel safeguards of 2018/2019.

Next steps

In line with the ordinary legislative procedure, the European Parliament and the Council will now scrutinise the proposal. Once adopted by the Council and Parliament, the measure will enter into force before the expiry of the current safeguards, on 30 June 2026, to ensure uninterrupted protection of the EU steel sector.

After almost 10 years of negotiations, the EU and Indonesia jointly announced the conclusion of an economic partnership agreement composed of a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) and an Investment Protection Agreement (IPA).

The agreements follow the initial political agreement from 13 July reached between Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto. Negotiations between the EU and Indonesia were launched in 2016, whereas the talks recently gained momentum in the face of global trade disruptions caused by the US tariff policy. In this context, the agreement aims to diversify trade partnerships, notably by securing new opportunities for EU companies, bringing benefits for farmers and securing sustainable critical raw materials supply.

Key measures include the removal of 98.5% of Indonesian tariffs on EU goods with import duties currently averaging 10% while Indonesia’s main export goods, such as palm oil, textiles and footwear, will benefit from EU preferential market access. Regarding sustainable development, the EU-Indonesia CEPA features the Paris Agreement as an essential element as well as a Trade & Sustainable Development (TSD) Chapter committing both parties to respect international core obligations on climate, the environment, and workers' rights. The EU and Indonesia also commit to work together on carbon pricing - an area of cooperation likely to envisage compatible carbon pricing in line with the EU's CBAM. The agreement will also provide the EU with stable and predictable terms of access to critical raw materials, including nickel and cobalt of which Indonesia is one of the world's leading producers.

Next steps

After the draft texts are published, they will go through legal revision and translation into all official EU languages. The Commission will then submit the CEPA and IPA to the Council for signature and conclusion. After Council adoption, the EU and Indonesia will sign, and the texts will go to the European Parliament for consent. Once the Parliament consents and Indonesia ratifies, the agreements can enter into force. The Commission aims for into force before 1 January 2027.

Tarik Kiswanson, one of the most acclaimed Swedish artists of his generation, presents The Relief at the Swedish Institute in Paris, on view from 23 October 2025 to 11 January 2026. The exhibition was officially opened by Prince Daniel of Sweden and attended by the Swedish Ambassador to France, underscoring the cultural importance of this cross-border artistic moment.

Known for his poetic and multidimensional practice, Kiswanson explores memory, migration and transformation through sculpture, sound, and video.

At the centre of the exhibition is Steinway Victory Vertical (1944), a piano once parachuted to Allied soldiers as a source of hope and relief during World War II. Reimagined by Kiswanson, it now hovers above a cocoon-like sculpture, transforming into a powerful symbol of healing, memory, and renewal.