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...
Europe’s shift toward industrial sovereignty has reached the point where political ambition meets the limits of engineering reality. The ReSourceEU framework has given the continent clearly defined targets for raw-material extraction, processing and recycling, but the true challenge lies in the translation of these targets into concrete, buildable projects. Extraction alone does not generate strategic...
Europe stands at a point where policy ambition finally exceeds industrial capacity. With ReSourceEU, the European Union has moved from abstract sustainability rhetoric toward measurable industrial objectives: 10 percent of strategic raw materials extracted within the EU, 40 percent processed inside the bloc, and 25 percent recycled, all by 2030. The numbers are clean. The...
Europe stands at a point where policy ambition finally exceeds industrial capacity. With ReSourceEU, the European Union has moved from abstract sustainability rhetoric toward measurable industrial objectives: 10 percent of strategic raw materials extracted within the EU, 40 percent processed inside the bloc, and 25 percent recycled, all by 2030. The numbers are clean. The...
Industrial competitiveness is rarely distributed evenly across a country. It concentrates in corridors where skills, suppliers, logistics and institutional memory reinforce one another over decades. In Serbia, one of the most structurally important yet under-recognised industrial geographies is the Cacak–Uzice–Kraljevo corridor. This region represents a dense concentration of fabrication, machining and heavy-industry know-how that is...
Europe’s energy transition is not only an energy-system transformation but a manufacturing one. The deployment of renewable generation, grids and storage requires an immense volume of fabricated components—many of them heavy, customised and sensitive to logistics costs. Serbia is increasingly positioned to capture this demand as a near-source manufacturing base for Europe’s energy-transition supply chain....
European manufacturing is undergoing a structural reorganisation in which engineering proximity, design flexibility and production responsiveness are replacing pure labour arbitrage as decisive competitive factors. In this environment, Serbia is emerging not simply as a fabrication base, but as a location where engineering and manufacturing increasingly operate as a unified system. This integration is reshaping...
While fabrication remains the most visible manifestation of Serbia’s industrial capability, a quieter but equally significant transformation is underway in engineering and R&D. Serbia is increasingly functioning as a near-source engineering platform for European industry, filling a structural gap created by talent shortages, rising costs and organisational rigidity within the EU. European manufacturers across machinery,...
Serbia is entering a phase in which manufacturing, fabrication and processing are beginning to matter not just as legacy industries, but as strategic assets in the emerging European production map. With rising labour costs in Central Europe, overstretched supply chains in Asia, and EU manufacturers under pressure to shorten lead times, Serbia finds itself in...
Serbia is entering a phase in which manufacturing, fabrication and processing are beginning to matter not just as legacy industries, but as strategic assets in the emerging European production map. With rising labour costs in Central Europe, overstretched supply chains in Asia, and EU manufacturers under pressure to shorten lead times, Serbia finds itself in...
