The European automotive sector called for the entire value chain to be relocated, at a conference organised by the European Parliament’s Renew Europe political group on Tuesday 28 January.
Peter Tom Jones, Director of the Institute for Sustainable Metals and Minerals at KU Leuven University, has drawn a gloomy conclusion: “The mistake we made over the last decade was that we have basically given up on the upstream part of the supply chain for raw materials”. This economic strategy...