Europe’s raw materials challenge is widely misunderstood. Public debate tends to orbit around mining projects, geological exploration, and access to resources. Yet the deeper structural gap in Europe’s industrial security does not sit in the rocks beneath the ground; it sits in the factories that never got built. Europe does not just lack minerals. Europe...
Let us imagine Serbia in 2035. Two different Serbia’s exist — born from two different policy choices, two different strategic mindsets, and two different levels of courage. In the first scenario, Serbia chose the comfortable path. Mining investments arrived, ore was extracted, royalties were paid, and exports increased. The country recorded positive years, foreign exchange...
The conversation about Serbia’s mining future is overwhelmingly dominated by two icons: lithium and copper. Lithium because it symbolizes electrification, energy transition and geopolitical currency in Europe’s battery ambitions; copper because it is the metal of electrification, power systems and industrial life. But if Serbia is serious about building durable industrial ecosystems, it cannot afford...
Europe’s industrial reality is simple: it cannot meet its energy transition, manufacturing restructuring, and technological competitiveness goals without secure access to critical materials and reliable processing ecosystems. From lithium for batteries to copper for electrification, from industrial minerals to metals enabling renewable infrastructure, Europe needs not just resources but security of supply. Meanwhile, Serbia’s economic...
Europe’s raw materials challenge is widely misunderstood. Public debate tends to orbit around mining projects, geological exploration, and access to resources. Yet the deeper structural gap in Europe’s industrial security does not sit in the rocks beneath the ground; it sits in the factories that never got built. Europe does not just lack minerals. Europe...
Today, nuclear energy is often mentioned in Serbia as if it were a simple technical solution to our energy challenges. In public debate it is presented almost like an infrastructure procurement issue: build a plant, secure electricity, problem solved. It is a state strategy spanning at least three decades, demanding knowledge, trained people, institutions, planning...
Today, nuclear energy is often mentioned in Serbia as if it were a simple technical solution to our energy challenges. In public debate it is presented almost like an infrastructure procurement issue: build a plant, secure electricity, problem solved. It is a state strategy spanning at least three decades, demanding knowledge, trained people, institutions, planning...
Power economics is now the decisive variable determining where Europe’s future materials refining and processing capacity will exist. Refining metals, manufacturing semi-fabricated products, processing battery materials, and managing advanced metallurgical chains are fundamentally energy operations. Electricity is not simply an input cost; it is the strategic determinant of competitiveness, investment confidence and long-term industrial anchoring....
South-East Europe is moving into a period where emissions, carbon pricing, and green electricity certification are no longer policy experiments. They have become structural realities shaping who can continue exporting to Europe, who can secure financing, who can scale operations, and who will quietly disappear from competitive relevance. For decades, industries across the Western Balkans,...
Green energy certificates and CBAM now sit at the heart of Europe’s industrial trade reality. The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism was created not as a tariff instrument, but as a structural equaliser: Europe is decarbonising its industry under strict emissions pricing through the EU ETS, and CBAM ensures that imported products face a comparable carbon...
