From the Kiruna iron ore mine, which accounts for 80% of European extraction, the Swedish Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Industry, Ebba Busch, announced, on Thursday 12 January, that raw materials were a priority for her country’s EU Council Presidency.
The minister said that the Presidency would give “high priority” to the act on raw materials that the European Commission must present at the end of March.
“The anticipated act needs to enable the supply of sustainable raw...