For nearly two decades, Serbia built much of its modern industrial credibility on mobility and automotive manufacturing. Assembly plants, supplier hubs, logistics clusters and component manufacturing defined national economic narratives about industrialization, modernization and export relevance. The model worked. It created jobs, anchored foreign direct investment, integrated Serbia deeper into European industrial chains and positioned...
For nearly two decades, Serbia built much of its modern industrial credibility on mobility and automotive manufacturing. Assembly plants, supplier hubs, logistics clusters and component manufacturing defined national economic narratives about industrialization, modernization and export relevance. The model worked. It created jobs, anchored foreign direct investment, integrated Serbia deeper into European industrial chains and positioned...
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 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 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...
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...
