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Can Europe Build a Mining Industry Without China? The Critical Minerals Dependence Challenge
Europe’s effort to build an independent critical minerals supply chain is increasingly running into a structural constraint: deep and persistent reliance on Chinese-controlled refining and processing…
ASX Juniors Turn to Europe’s Underexplored Mineral Belts as Critical-Metals Focus Shifts West
Australian ASX-listed junior miners are increasingly targeting Europe’s remaining underexplored mineral belts, citing both growing critical-metals demand and a strategic push for Western supply-chain security. The…
Portugal Lithium Projects Become a Stress Test for Europe’s Critical Minerals Push
Portugal’s hard-rock lithium plans—once positioned as a European supply-chain breakthrough—are increasingly being slowed by local and environmental opposition. The dispute is forcing investors to treat “social…
Europe’s Critical Minerals Push Faces a Financing Gap That Outruns Industrial Plans
Europe’s drive to secure supplies of lithium, copper, tungsten, rare earths and battery inputs is colliding with a structural financing shortfall. Even as institutions expand support,…
National Bank of Serbia flags shift to a more complex macroeconomic cycle
The National Bank of Serbia says inflation has returned to its target corridor and the banking system remains resilient, but it warns that price stability and…
Serbia’s biogas push links farm waste to power reliability and gas security
Serbia is moving to treat biogas as a strategic energy resource, using agricultural residues to support dispatchable electricity and potentially renewable gas as winter supply risks…
Serbia hardens its stance in MOL–NIS talks, prioritizing refinery control and domestic fuel security
Serbia has rejected MOL’s first proposal for the Russian stake in NIS, arguing it lacked binding guarantees on Pančevo refinery operations, fuel supply continuity and future…
The Balkan Mining Corridor Expands Beyond Lithium as Copper, Gold and Strategic Metals Drive New Exploration Boom
The Balkan mining corridor is steadily evolving into one of Europe’s most dynamic multi-commodity exploration regions, moving well beyond lithium to attract growing international interest in…
FEED is becoming the foundation of bankable environmental and energy-efficiency industries
Across Europe and increasingly throughout South East Europe, FEED — Front-End Engineering Design — is moving from a technical pre-construction exercise into one of the most…
Tungsten’s Return Puts Europe’s Mining and Defense Supply Chains Back in Focus
Tungsten is re-emerging in Europe as a strategic metal as defense spending rises and concerns grow about reliance on Chinese supply. The shift is drawing renewed…