nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/34894382e841d7f8 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250828s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/34894382e841d7f8 doi eng 342 23 Nurkić, Benjamin Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-8906-2288 Lithium, Law, and the Limits of EU Sustainability - The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Framework and Non-EU Countries Nurkić, Benjamin Verfassungsblog 2025-08-28 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In July 2024, the European Commission entered into a strategic partnership on critical raw materials with Serbia by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on sustainable raw materials and battery value chains. Three days before signing the MoU, the Serbian government had decided to renew the spatial plan for the realization of the “Jadar” project, which includes the exploitation of the mineral Jadarite in western Serbia. These two events have signaled the readiness of the Serbian regime to allow lithium mining in western Serbia and the EU’s commitment to exploit a source of critical raw material (CRM) in its neighborhood, particularly in the Western Balkans. CC BY-SA 4.0 Critical Raw Materials Act Eastern European Enlargement of the EU European Union Serbia Hogić, Nedim Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/lithium-law-and-the-limits-of-eu-sustainability/ raw object