Chips and Rare Metals: the Case for European Strategic Autonomy and Technology Supremacy
Published: 20/06/2022
Author: Piotr Arak
Europe seems to be waking up from a strategic nap it has been having since 1989. The pandemic interrupted supply chains and made the continent more aware of its dependence on Asian manufacturing, and just-in-time logistics. Then the barbaric aggression against Ukraine exposed its addiction to Russian energy resources, previously brought up only by a handful of Central European countries.