International: the Swedish and Brazilian trade unions lobby for Saab to modernize the Brazilian military aircraft

The declaration also emphasised the commitment of the Swedish governmental and non-governmental sector to support the establishment of new production clusters for defence equipment. It underlined that it would benefit the civil sector: “the technology gained by the Brazilian engineering in the military area will flow over to the civil aviation. This issue, we believe, could be looked into more thoroughly in the negotiations between Brazil and Sweden.”
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joint declaration. They expect President Lula to be influenced. (Ref. 100294)

Technology transfer. On 5th April, the Swedish and Brazilian metal industry trade unions signed a joint declaration in Brazil, supporting the Saab partnership project with Brazil for the production, and commercialization of the supersonic aircraft Gripen in the framework of the Brazilian F-X2 program. “We consider that the Swedish proposal to Brazil – which our trade unions were able to get acquainted with in detail

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