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Europe is today 98% dependent on one country for rare earths.

President @vonderleyen proposed yesterday at the to create a critical raw materials club to collectively strengthen supply chains and diversify suppliers.

🐦🔗: n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission

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Rare earths are vital for manufacturing key technologies – like wind power generation, hydrogen storage or batteries.

For example, three countries account for more than 90% of lithium production. This drives up prices and threatens our competitiveness.

🐦🔗: n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission

Europe needs to improve the refining, processing and recycling of raw materials locally.

We will work with our trade partners to cooperate on sourcing, production and processing to overcome the existing monopoly.

🐦🔗: n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission

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