In summer 2023, the EU entered a strategic raw materials partnership with Chile. While the EU is seeking to gain better access to critical raw materials such as lithium and copper, Chile is aiming to diversify its raw materials sector and boost local value creation. Despite progress having been made in the scientific and technological spheres, industrial cooperation has so far fallen short of expectations. To fully realise the potential of the partnership, the EU should seek to ensure that its existing initiatives with Chile are more closely aligned and should make more effective use of synergies between raw materials, renewable energy and hydrogen. This will require stronger investment incentives for European companies. Given the new US trade policy, it is especially important that the EU underpins its partnership promises through concrete actions in order to demonstrate that it is a reliable partner.
Photographer Julian Elnasser spotted the two aircraft over Death Valley earlier this year. The secretive RAT55 NT-43A is thought to be almost exclusively used to test the airborne radar signatures of stealth aircraft. While this is not the first time the two aircraft types have been spotted or reported operating alongside each other, with much […]
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C'est un symbole de Belgrade qui disparait. Le Vieux pont sur la Save, avec son arche de métal, est en cours de démantèlement. Les citoyens mobilisés n'ont pas pu arrêter sa destruction. Son tort ? il « gênait » le projet Welgrade Waterfront.
- Le fil de l'Info / Serbie, Belgrade Waterfront, Société, Courrier des BalkansAnkara’s “techno-nationalist” policies aim to place Turkey among the innovation leaders of the 21st century. The country has already achieved notable progress in its defence industry, launched its own EV brand and is preparing a space mission. But creating “native and national” (yerli ve milli) alternatives to the big global players in artificial intelligence (AI), 5G or semiconductors is not an easy task. With few commercial success stories to show, Turkey still needs international partners to develop innovation in the twenty-first century. This is likely to become more challenging under the Trump administration, whose drastic trade policies have complicated the relationships between China, Europe and the United States. With different dependencies on each of these actors (American digital corporations, Chinese network infrastructure and EU tech norms) Turkey faces a geopolitical trilemma in the field of technology.