The European Union needs to step up efforts to provide supply of critical minerals in the face of Chinese export curbs, the European Initiative for Energy Security has said, calling for more funding to be secured for these efforts. “As China and the US pursue capital-backed political critical minerals agendas, the absence of a comprehensive European financial architecture exposes the continent’s limitations in catalysing necessary investment in critical mineral value chains,” the EIES said in a report released today. To respond…