This HCSS “Draghi Report Revisited” piece delivers a blunt warning: Europe’s green and industrial ambitions are built on shaky ground because the EU does not control the critical raw materials it desperately needs. Brussels talks about resilience, strategic autonomy and supply security – but Europe remains dangerously dependent on imports, exposed to geopolitical pressure, and painfully slow at building its own mining, processing and recycling capacity.

A report by the European Council for Foreign Relations (ECFR) inquires into the vulnerabilities of the European wind power industry in the face of Chinese expansion.