EU Plans Centralized Critical Mineral Stockpile

The European Union plans to set up a centralized authority responsible for building and maintaining an inventory of critical minerals to avoid having the United States snatch the world’s critical minerals from “under our noses”, the EU’s executive VP for industrial strategy told the Financial Times. Stéphane Séjourné said that the European Union had become “collateral damage” in the trade war between the United States and China, even though the EU has been rather belligerent in its trade…