On Thursday 3 September, in the wake of the March industrial strategy, the European Commission presented its action plan on so-called “critical” raw materials, as well as the three-yearly update of the list of critical raw materials and a prospective study for strategic technologies and sectors up to 2030, or even 2050.
“If we want to keep benefiting in the long run from modern products such as smartphones, TV sets or computer screens or our electric cars, it’s quite clear that we...