The Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton called on his personal blog on Sunday 12 June for the European Union to engage in the mining of raw materials in connection with the REpowerEU raw materials initiative.
For the Commissioner, this is a question of sovereignty. Europe is “very dependent” on supplies from third countries for lithium, cobalt, graphite, silicon and permanent magnets, he recalls on his blog, pointing to the Chinese quasi-monopoly on some of these raw...