Energy is where the geopolitical lens usually dominates, but the underlying economics are straightforward. Serbia is part of the wider European power and gas system whether anyone likes it or not: it is physically interconnected, exposed to EU rules on cross-border trade, influenced by European carbon pricing and indirectly hit by CBAM, green taxonomies and […]
As European capital returns to mining, it is not returning to the same industry logic. The traditional junior mining model — raise money on a discovery story, sell excitement, focus on the drill program, and treat downstream as “somebody else’s future problem” — is increasingly incompatible with the way European investors think today. Europe is
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European capital has returned to the mining conversation — but it has not returned blindly. Unlike previous commodity cycles driven by enthusiasm, retail speculation or thematic hype, Europe’s renewed engagement with minerals is structured, policy-aware and deeply strategic. European investors today do not simply ask which metal might perform well on spot markets. They ask
Europe’s pursuit of strategic autonomy in raw materials, electrification metals and industrial processing capacity is entering a decade defined by volatile energy markets, shifting logistics routes, geopolitical fragmentation and competition for midstream value creation. ReSourceEU has marked Europe’s strategic intent, but the 2030–2040 horizon will determine whether Europe becomes a competitive processing region or remains
EPS is investing 450 million euros in new equipment at the Kolubara coal mine to increase its production capacity, the energy ministry Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic said in a press release. The investment also involves the launch of replacement production capacities to enable the exploitation of coal from surface mines, as well as the construction of
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The prospect of lithium extraction in Serbia has reignited fears of environmental devastation among its citizens, following the European Commission’s (EC) announcement of negotiations regarding a memorandum on critical raw materials. Despite vocal opposition to lithium mining, particularly concerning potential ecological disasters, Maroš Šefčovič, the European Commissioner for the “Green Plan,” revealed progress in finalizing the memorandum, focusing
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Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič revealed that the final legal obstacles are being addressed before the EU-Serbia trade partnership, focused on sourcing lithium from the Jadar region, is finalized. Negotiations are in the concluding stages, as mentioned during a significant event in Brussels. The trade agreement, aimed at sourcing critical raw materials from Serbia, has been in the works since last
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