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...
Serbia is entering a decisive economic moment in which metallurgy and materials processing are no longer simply industrial activities, but the structural foundation of national competitiveness, technological relevance and strategic sovereignty inside Europe’s evolving industrial space. For decades, Serbia’s metallurgy was viewed primarily in terms of legacy steel, aluminium downstream manufacturing, copper production and industrial...
Europe is entering a new industrial era in which power is no longer defined primarily by who owns natural resources, but by who controls processing. Sovereignty today lies not in mines, but in metallurgical know-how, refining capability, chemical conversion capacity, engineering execution, and industrial resilience. Belgium anchors copper and zinc. The Netherlands stabilizes aluminium and...
Southeast Europe is facing a rare and decisive moment. For the first time in decades, the European Union needs the region not symbolically, not politically, and not as an afterthought — but in a structural, industrial sense. Not as a source of cheap labour, not as a passive consumer market, not as an outsourcing experiment...
