In the eighth edition of the Summit ‘Choose France’, on Monday Emmanuel Macron chose the Palace of Versailles to receive more than 200 business leaders from all over the world “France, country of creativity”. A meeting that served to gather 37,000 million euros Foreign investment, as announced by the Elysee Palace.
Although of that figure, 17,000 million euros The past has already been announced February During the artificial intelligence summit, this new summit has shown that France remains an attraction for foreign companies reaching a new record, at a time when the country’s economy faces important difficulties, with a overflowing public deficit and Donald Trump’s tariff threat.
Precisely, despite the turbulence generated by tariff policies, US companies have opted One more year by France to invest; Prologis will invest 6,400 million euros in centers of Marseilles, Lyon, Paris y Le Havreand the Giant Amazon presented a plan of more than 300 million euros destined, in particular, to stores in the Central-Valle regions of the Loira and Auvernia-Rodano-Alpes, which will mean the creation of more than 1,500 permanent jobs.
Canadian company Brookfield also confirmed an investment of 10,000 million eurosalthough the largest investment collected in this edition comes from the hand of the Swiss ship’s MSC Croisieres, which will commission two new ships to some Brest (west) shipyards by 3.5 billion eurosand that should be delivered in 2029 and 2030.
More projects
On the table, there is another project of one billion dollars, in which the EMIRATÍ MGX INVESTMENT FUND, for the creation of an AI campus in the île-de-France region. Among the participants, they were also Ikea, Siemens and several Spanish companies, such as CAF, Cooroo o CELLNEX. The latter, dedicated to telecommunications infrastructure, has an outstanding place in the list of investors, with a contribution of 2.5 billion euros. In total, in this eighth edition they presented themselves about 50 projects of those expected to generate 13,000 direct jobs or indirect in the country.
“It is a very special day (…) has been an excellent edition. It is the result of an eight -year collective work. We have reduced the cost of capital, labor and we have undertaken macroeconomic reforms to favor investment,” he said Emmanuel Macron in the closure of the summit that was born as a Personal project of the president. Even so, Macron wanted to highlight that “the situation is not ideal in Europe” due to “arduous competition” from Asia.
“Choose France” closes with a New record and keeps France as a European leader in foreign investments.
