Collaboration on 13 selected projects is presented at a press conference in Brussels by the EU's Industrial Commissioner Stéphane Séjourné – flanked by the UK's Business and Trade Minister Jonathan Reynolds and Ukrainian Minister Svitland Hryntjuk.
"The EU needs stable, secure, and varied supply chains. Today's list of 13 projects worldwide will help reduce our dependencies, contribute to our economic security, and simultaneously create growth, and export opportunities in the affected countries," writes Séjourné in a press release.
Mainly, the projects concern the extraction of vital raw materials for batteries, such as lithium, nickel, and cobalt, but also substances like copper and tungsten.
The projects are located in Canada, Kazakhstan, Norway, Serbia, Ukraine, Zambia, Brazil, Madagascar, Malawi, South Africa, and the UK – as well as on Danish Greenland and French New Caledonia.
Earlier this year, a list of 47 similar projects within the EU was presented, including several Swedish mines.
