Browsing: Mining

As Europe accelerates its push to secure critical raw materials, attention has largely focused on mines, processing plants, and permitting reform within the European Union. Less…

In EU candidate countries, few policy phrases are used as frequently—and as loosely—as “strategic project.” In Serbia, the term has become a fixture of official discourse…

A cluster of recent exploration agreements and drilling results confirms that Serbia has entered a new phase as one of Europe’s most actively contested copper-gold provinces,…

The world’s largest mining group, BHP Group, is deepening its presence in eastern Serbia as it searches for the next large-scale copper-gold discovery comparable to the…

Europe’s metallurgical transition from volume-driven output to value-intensive production is inseparable from energy economics. Carbon pricing, electricity market volatility, gas supply risk, and grid capacity constraints…

Serbia has quietly become one of the most intensively explored mining jurisdictions in continental Europe. Over the past fifteen years, the country has shifted from a…

Europe’s metallurgical and critical raw materials supply chain is not being dismantled, nor is it being rebuilt in the way official strategies describe. Instead, it is…

The reconfiguration of ownership in South-East Europe’s oil sector has accelerated a broader investment cycle across energy infrastructure, grids, transport electrification and industrial upgrades. Less visible,…

Europe’s struggle to secure materials for its energy transition, electric mobility rollout and industrial renewal is often framed as an external problem, usually reduced to dependence…

South-East Europe has quietly become one of the most consequential theatres in Europe’s evolving relationship with Chinese industrial capital. While public debate still focuses on Western…