Lunchtime talk:The Raw Materials Situation in Neighbouring European Countries

As it strives for greater independence from China, the EU is looking for new sources of raw materials that are needed for the decarbonisation. In this context, neighbouring European countries come more into focus. Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia have recently experienced a boom in new mining projects with strong European involvement.  In Armenia and Georgia, environmental destruction and human rights violations have been occurring in the mining context for several years. With the exception of Armenia, the four countries presented here are EU accession candidates that lack stable rule-of-law institutions and therefore lack the prerequisites for compliance with minimum social and environmental standards for potential mining projects. 

Our brochure on the situation in these four countries was published in July. Together with you and the authors, we would like to gain a deeper insight into the different countries in an online lunchtime talk and discuss the consequences of these findings for German and EU raw materials policy.

With:

• Johanna Sydow, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
• Kety Gujaraidze, Green Alternative Georgia, Tbilisi
• Artur Grigoryan, Transparency International Anticorruption Centre, Yerivan
• Majda Ibraković, Eko Forum Zenica 
• Predrag Momčilović, Centre for Green Politics, Belgrade

In English, no interpretation

Contact:
Annette Kraus
International Environmental and Climate Policy
E kraus@boell.de

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