The latest CBAM draft confirms what industrial and power-market analysts have long suspected: electricity is no longer a peripheral factor in carbon pricing—it is becoming the structural backbone through which CBAM transmits cost, risk, and compliance across manufacturing value chains. The EU’s expansion of CBAM to finished and semi-finished steel and aluminium products formalizes a...
As Europe accelerates its metals and materials transition, demand for specialised engineering—covering process modelling, plant automation, electrical systems, metallurgical simulation, and commissioning support—has intensified. Companies seeking to develop smelters, hydrometallurgical facilities, battery-material plants, and advanced recycling operations naturally compare engineering hubs across Central and South-Eastern Europe. Among these, Serbia stands out for its unique alignment...
Europe is entering a decisive period in transforming its metals, minerals, and materials ecosystem. For decades, the continent relied on global markets for ores, concentrates, and refined materials, enabling high-value manufacturing while outsourcing mining and midstream processing. Stable supply chains and predictable geopolitics ensured steady access to copper, nickel, lithium, aluminium, specialty steels, and rare-earth...
In the emerging architecture of Europe’s electricity system, flexibility has become the most valuable attribute a power asset can possess. The ability to ramp output quickly, absorb surplus generation, stabilise frequency, or respond to sudden imbalances now matters more than raw installed capacity. Yet while flexibility has become scarce, it has not become fairly priced....
In the emerging architecture of Europe’s electricity system, flexibility has become the most valuable attribute a power asset can possess. The ability to ramp output quickly, absorb surplus generation, stabilise frequency, or respond to sudden imbalances now matters more than raw installed capacity. Yet while flexibility has become scarce, it has not become fairly priced....
For most of the past half-century, Europe’s electricity system could be understood through a relatively simple lens. Power was generated close to where it was consumed, national systems were planned around predictable baseload plants, and cross-border flows played a supporting role rather than defining market outcomes. Electricity prices reflected domestic generation costs, demand patterns were...
The expansion of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is quietly redefining Serbia’s position in Europe’s industrial map. What was once framed as a peripheral regulatory issue—relevant mainly to primary steel or aluminium exporters—is now becoming a system-level determinant of where manufacturing capacity locates, how mining inputs are processed, and which countries can credibly position themselves...
Europe’s hydrogen transition will not be decided by how many gigawatts of electrolysers are announced, nor by how ambitious national strategies appear on paper. It will be decided by corridors. Hydrogen, unlike electricity, does not flow freely across borders without friction. It requires physical continuity, pressure management, storage, regulation, and—most importantly—industrial offtake dense enough to...
Europe’s decarbonisation agenda is accelerating faster in steel and metallurgy than in almost any other heavy industry. The European Green Deal, CBAM implementation, rising carbon costs, corporate ESG commitments, and trade-policy alignment with global decarbonisation frameworks have fundamentally changed the economics of metal production. Steel, aluminium, copper and high-alloy materials are all moving toward electrification,...
Europe’s industrial transition cannot proceed without rare-earth elements and the magnet materials derived from them. The motors that drive electric vehicles, the turbines that power offshore wind farms, the robotics systems that automate factories, the high-precision medical devices that support Europe’s healthcare sector, and the advanced defense technologies essential for NATO security all share a...
