EU signs lithium agreement with Serbia amid protests | DW News

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has signed an EU co-operation agreement with the government of Serbia on lithium excavation. The mineral is used to make batteries for electric vehicles. The agreement has run into resistance in Serbia, as a lithium mine would destroy agricultural in the west. The EU is keen to shift its reliance on China for natural resources towards Europe. DW spoke to environmental activists in Serbia about the project.

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コメント (21)
  • @garden.
    Germany has more than twice as many lithium reserves as Serbia, but they will give guarantees that Rio Tinto, which is not a company from the EU and which is known for not respecting any environmental protection standards, but is very famous for corruption scandals, will respect the standards in an almost a dictatorial country like Serbia... Really?
  • @CMNT
    This is what EU does.
  • @miloszuma4348
    Serbian people are against this mine and it won't happen!
  • @Argaroth89
    "This quiet region in Western Serbia holds the largest known lithium reserves in Europe."... That is a lie!!! Portugal has the largest lithium reserves in Europe and the eighth largest worldwide. Why don't they dig there?
  • @jadu30
    EU double standard at its finest. If this same deal made in Africa or Asia, they will condemn it. 😂
  • @gugy6541
    Myself a Serb, pro left, watching this, makes me hate EU like the rest of the country. I'm so sickened of the double standards 🤮
  • @bulthaosen1169
    This is what europe does. And Europeans lecture to others claiming moral superiority.
  • @hoca90
    In Serbia, average vechile is 17 years old, so there is no way that these vechiles will be driving here. They will be try to ruin ecologicaly Serbia so EU members could drive 'cleaner' vechiles. Also, Serbia will have very little economical benefits from this, only 3% of reported profit made by Rio Tinto.
  • @ivanlazic4764
    Shame!!!!! As some Africans countries refuse to be colony of France, EU is acting fast and finding new colony much closer, and easier for blackmail, bribe and manipulate!!!!! As a Serbian I feel a shame!!!!
  • @petarpopovic3306
    Why is mr. Scholz underlying that "environmantal standards will be SIGNIFICANTLY supported"? What is his mandate to give out such promisses, is he involved with the excavating company, is he in some kind of supervisory board or agency? What is his power to control the support of environmental standards by a non-EU company in a non-EU country? Thank you mr scholz, we don't believe in your promisses, feel free to dig in Germany.
  • @MilosPakevic
    In summary, the EU has high environmental standards and will be using clean technology. However, Serbia does not have the same standards, so the EU will be mining lithium there. Additionally, the Serbian government is pro-lithium and is willing to sacrifice the cleanest part of its land, which is rich in clean water. This is sad and disheartening to me.
  • @draganapavlovic-fc4wx
    This must not happen in Serbia! People have to stop this madness of the government finally!
  • @bisel2323
    My God, the double standards is so shameless
  • @nonaligned293
    Germanny is just oligarchy with neocolonial aspirations, but has the nerve to lecture others around the world on democracy.