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Industrial mineral processing facility with stockpiled raw materials and heavy equipment.

Critical Inputs Expose the EU's Supply Security Gap

Europe's critical raw materials agenda is moving from ambition to execution, but the central challenge is no longer only domestic capacity. The issue is how to match projects, trade rules and financing with the materials that carry the greatest strategic risk.

Pipeline construction and energy infrastructure in Neuquén.

Latin America

Argentina's Resource Boom Puts Provinces at the Center

Rising hydrocarbon and lithium output gives Argentina's provinces a chance to turn royalties into long-term assets, but past funds show how easily windfalls can disappear.

Health professionals inspect medical monitoring equipment at a health-sector exhibition in Accra.

Africa

African governments resist U.S. health deals over data, minerals and legal authority

Ghana, Zimbabwe and Zambia rejected or delayed proposed agreements, while Kenyan litigation exposed a broader dispute over long-term access to health records, regulatory control and the use of aid in critical-minerals bargaining.

Industrial workers and machinery inside an Argentine manufacturing plant during a period of uneven sector activity.

Latin America

Argentina's Industrial Split Deepens as Mining-Linked Sectors Advance and Textiles Slide

Argentina's industrial map has become sharply uneven since late 2023, with chemicals, petroleum refining and food expanding while textiles, metal products and machinery show steep declines, underscoring the stress of an economy being reshaped by trade opening, cost pressures and limited competitiveness gains.

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