EU Industry Ministers agreed, during an informal ‘Competitiveness’ meeting on Tuesday 1 February in Lens, France, on strengthening the EU’s “open strategic autonomy”, both in terms of diversifying the supply of critical metals and other strategic raw materials (nickel, cobalt, lithium, permanent magnets, etc.), and in the use of important projects of common European interest (IPCEI).
“The debates that have taken place today have led us to several conclusions: firstly, that the...