{"id":1672,"date":"2024-05-18T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marssadrine.org\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2025-05-12T03:56:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T03:56:42","slug":"commissioner-touts-imminent-agreement-with-serbia-on-raw-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marssadrine.org\/en\/commissioner-touts-imminent-agreement-with-serbia-on-raw-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioner touts agreement with Serbia on raw materials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Last legal hurdles are being discussed before an EU-Serbia trade partnership to source lithium from the Jadar region comes to fruition.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An official trade partnership to source critical raw materials from Serbia is looming with negotiations at the final stages of legal wrangling, Commissioner Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d told Euronews during a high-level event in Brussels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trade deal between the EU and Serbia has been cooking for a while with the signing of a letter of intent last September \u2014 to strengthen and expand cooperation on critical raw materials and electric vehicles value chains \u2014 a clear signal that the EU executive and Belgrade were keen to join forces, provided that environmental and social acceptance challenges around the prospective mining region were sorted out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the sidelines of the EIT Raw Materials Summit held in Brussels this week \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d referred to Serbia\u2019s \u201cunique position\u201d in relation minerals listed in the EU\u2019s Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA), such as high-quality&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/05\/09\/critical-raw-materials-lithium\">lithium<\/a>, which he referred to as \u201cone of the best in the world\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI hope that in a short period of time we will be able to finalise the text of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU),\u201d \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d told Euronews, adding that current discussions with the Serbian government are focused on extraction, processing, refining and use of lithium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Original news published on Euronews website. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/05\/17\/commissioner-touts-imminent-agreement-with-serbia-on-raw-materials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last legal hurdles are being discussed before an EU-Serbia trade partnership to source lithium from the Jadar region comes to fruition. An official trade partnership to source critical raw materials from Serbia is looming with negotiations at the final stages of legal wrangling, Commissioner Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d told Euronews during a high-level event in Brussels. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,55],"tags":[84,85,49,83,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-1672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-info-and-news-en","8":"category-foreign-media","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-jadar","11":"tag-lithium","12":"tag-sefcovic","13":"tag-serbia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marssadrine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marssadrine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marssadrine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marssadrine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marssadrine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marssadrine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"https:\/\/marssadrine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marssadrine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marssadrine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marssadrine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marssadrine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}