Browsing: mining

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…

Mining extraction and materials-refining facilities in Serbia and the wider region are increasingly evaluated not as standalone industrial operations, but as integrated environmental, social and financial systems.…

Europe has officially entered the era of strategic mining necessity. What for decades lingered on the margins of policy conversation has now moved to the centre…

Europe’s renewed focus on mining is fundamentally different from past commodity cycles. It is no longer driven primarily by price spikes or opportunistic resource exploitation. Instead,…

Mining is re-entering Europe’s strategic conversation not simply as a resource topic, but as an industrial sovereignty and competitiveness imperative. The global energy transition, electrification economy,…

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…

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 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…