Lithium, Law, and the Limits of EU Sustainability - The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Framework and Non-EU Countries

Lithium, Law, and the Limits of EU Sustainability - The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Framework and Non-EU Countries Nurkić, Benjamin Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-8906-2288 Hogić, Nedim Author aut Text xx# 2025 Verfassungsblog 2025-08-28 eng 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 Nurkić, Benjamin Critical Raw Materials Act Eastern European Enlargement of the EU European Union Serbia 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/lithium-law-and-the-limits-of-eu-sustainability/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/34894382e841d7f8 250828 10.59704/34894382e841d7f8 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)