By the mid-2020s, Europe’s relationship with raw materials fundamentally changed. What had long been treated as a global procurement problem became a strategic vulnerability, explicitly acknowledged in EU industrial policy, security planning, and decarbonisation strategy. The European Union’s push to secure critical raw materials is not abstract or ideological; it is grounded in forecasted physical...
From the standpoint of an experienced energy and sustainability consultant, the growing demand for external verification of green electricity claims in Serbia is not driven by bureaucracy or fashion. It is driven by risk transfer. European clients, financiers, and auditors are increasingly shifting the burden of proof onto suppliers, and industrial buyers who cannot demonstrate credible,...
For industrial power buyers in Serbia, claiming green electricity is no longer a matter of internal declarations or supplier assurances. By 2025–2026, verification has become an external, evidence-based process, increasingly aligned with EU audit standards, customer due diligence, and lender requirements. Specialized energy and sustainability consultants now play a central role in translating Guarantees of...
The export of high-technology machinery and advanced electrical equipment from Serbia into European Union markets has moved decisively from an opportunistic, price-driven activity toward a structured industrial strategy shaped by EU re-industrialisation, energy transition, and supply-chain resilience priorities. Over the past decade, Serbian manufacturers and engineering groups have accumulated deep capabilities in power electronics, industrial...
European industry is entering a regulatory environment that is no longer cyclical, episodic, or peripheral to operations. Compliance has moved from an annual reporting exercise to a continuous operational condition. Sustainability disclosures, product traceability, supply-chain due diligence, cybersecurity obligations, safety documentation, export-control regimes, and data-governance requirements are converging into a permanent layer of governance that sits...
European industry is entering a capital-intensive decade under conditions that are fundamentally different from previous investment cycles. Automation systems are more software-driven, energy assets are hybrid and digitally controlled, factories are increasingly connected to enterprise and cloud platforms, and regulatory scrutiny reaches deep into design choices long before assets enter operation. At the same time,...
European industry is entering a phase where operational fragility is no longer driven primarily by mechanical failure, labour disruption, or energy availability, but by the digital connective tissue that binds physical operations together. Over the past three decades, large manufacturers, utilities, logistics operators, and process industries have accumulated complex layers of enterprise resource planning systems, manufacturing...
Under the current phase of European industrial restructuring, Serbia is no longer competing to be noticed as a low-cost IT destination. It is competing to be selected as a strategic nearshore engineering extension for EU industrial groups that are under simultaneous pressure from digitalisation, regulatory compliance, cost discipline, and supply-chain resilience. The real question for executives and...
Europe’s tightening environmental framework for chemical and materials refining is colliding with a structural shortage of execution-grade engineering capacity. The bottleneck is no longer access to capital, proven abatement technology, or regulatory clarity. It is the lack of sufficiently deep, multidisciplinary engineering teams capable of translating environmental obligations into buildable, permit-ready, and operable plant designs...
When OEM-led after-sales and lifecycle-support operations reach critical mass in a country, they rarely remain confined to the OEM perimeter. Knowledge accumulates, engineers mature, and a secondary ecosystem emerges. In industrial economies, this secondary layer often takes the form of independent system integrators and retrofit specialists—firms that do not compete with OEMs on original equipment,...
