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When I visit ports in our partner countries, I too often see ships loaded with unprocessed raw materials. The value is created elsewhere, and the jobs that come with processing are lost with it. It also means unwanted vulnerabilities, for our partners and for Europe. https://t.co/hddFur1d51 #RawMaterials #TradePolicy #SustainableDevelopment #EU

Global imbalances are a key focus of this Summit. We all face overcapacity and export controls of minerals. Together, we have the scale and partnerships to respond. Through critical raw materials agreements with partners around the world ↓ https://t.co/m5RYqN5yWy #GlobalImbalances #RawMaterials #Sustainability #Therearenospecificcountriesmentionedinthetweet.Therefore #Icannotprovideanycountrycodes.

Greenland is home to 25 of the 34 critical raw materials that are strategic for Europe’s modern industry. I visited the National Core Depot to discuss the main opportunities in this area, but also the challenges to turning Greenland’s potential into concrete benefits. https://t.co/vTywtwDJaW #Greenland #RawMaterials #SustainableIndustry #GL #EU

Europe is lagging behind in the recycling and security of critical raw materials essential for the energy transition, particularly battery metals, which could be sourced from waste, as policymakers grapple with inefficiencies and the dominance of Chinese processing in the global supply chain. #BatteryMetals #Recycling #RawMaterials #EU #PL #RS #CN #CD

As Europe grapples with a critical raw materials crisis in the wake of the energy transition, experts emphasize the urgent need for recycling and local supply chains to reclaim valuable battery metals from waste, while acknowledging the region's slow response compared to the rest of the world and the challenge posed by China's dominance in processing and trading these materials. #EnergyTransition #BatteryRecycling #RawMaterials