Category: Economic Security
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Campus Laboratories Inherit a Security Job Nobody Trained Them For
Delft: A materials group here now runs a compliance check before it accepts a visiting…
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Foreign Money Now Faces a Screen in All Twenty-Seven Capitals
Piraeus: For seven years, Europe screened foreign investment the way it does most things, which…
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Critical Minerals Bind Tokyo to Brussels Faster Than Any Treaty
Tokyo: European and Japanese officials have spent 2026 building a working relationship on critical minerals…
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Taiwan’s Money Reached Europe Faster Than Europe’s Rules Did
Novara: The wafer plant GlobalWafers put up in this corner of Piedmont carried a price…
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Screening Foreign Money Stops Being Optional for Any Capital
Trieste: Europe’s new foreign investment screening regulation appeared in the Official Journal on 26 June…
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Ten Critical Materials Still Have No European Recycling Route
Luxembourg: The European Court of Auditors spent much of last year testing a simple proposition.…
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China Listed Fourteen European Firms and November Ends the Truce
La Rochelle: The plant on France’s Atlantic coast that separates rare earth elements for European…
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North Korean Coders Are Billing European Firms Through Proxies
Espoo: Software companies clustered around this Finnish city hire remote engineers the way everyone else…
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China’s Rare Earth Pause Runs Out in November and Europe Knows It
Narva: The magnet plant that Neo Performance Materials built on Estonia’s eastern border is the…
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Magnet Metals Are the Bottleneck Money Alone Cannot Clear
Skellefteå: Northern Sweden learned an expensive lesson about the distance between an announced battery project…
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Namibia Banned Raw Exports and Still Waits on Critical Minerals
Windhoek: Namibia stopped exporting unprocessed lithium, cobalt, manganese, graphite and rare earth elements in May…
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Does Europe Need a Chip Deal With Taipei or Just More Fabs
Hsinchu: The science park at the centre of Taiwan’s chip industry supplies components that almost…
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Europe Has Until November to Prepare for Rare Earth Licences
Ganzhou: The separation plants in this corner of southern Jiangxi refine the heavy rare earth…
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North Korea’s Money Moves Faster Than Europe Can List Its Owners
Dandong: Trucks still cross the Yalu River bridge here carrying the physical trade that North…
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Outbound Investment Screening Still Rests on a Recommendation
Eindhoven: Chip equipment firms in this cluster now report far more about who buys into…
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Critical Minerals in Mongolia Still Have to Cross Two Borders
Ulaanbaatar: Mongolia sits on copper, fluorspar, tungsten and rare earth deposits that European industry now…
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Can Europe Answer an Export Control List That Moves in One Day
Kopřivnice: This Moravian town builds heavy trucks that armies across Europe drive, and in July…
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Foreign Applicants Sent Two in Five Raw Materials Bids
Covas do Barroso: The lithium deposit in northern Portugal has spent the better part of…
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FDI Screening Now Reaches Buyers Already Inside the Single Market
Ostrava: An engineering works in the Moravian industrial belt was sold two years ago to…
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One Dialogue With Japan Cannot Fix Two Defence Industrial Bases
Nagoya: The aerospace and precision machinery cluster around this city supplies components for aircraft that…
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The Corridor Moves Copper Faster Than It Moves Refining
Chingola: Copper leaves this end of the Zambian belt by truck, and the whole promise…
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Semiconductor Subsidies Keep Flowing While Europe’s Share Stalls
Dresden: Saxony’s chip cluster employs more people than any comparable site in Europe, and it…
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Fourteen European Firms Now Sit Outside China’s Rare Earths Channel
Narva: A permanent magnet plant on Estonia’s eastern edge was meant to prove that Europe…
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Which Products Belong Inside Europe’s Steel Regulation
Trade protection lives or dies on scope, and Europe has opened the argument over its…