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Why Sweden has the necessary tools to lead new Nordic defense drive

By Jonas Dromberg April 2, 2025

In November 2021, three months before Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine, Swedish Prima Materia invested 100 million euros in German defence technology startup Helsing. This wasn’t a coincidence.

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