Euromines at Green Transition Forum 6.0: Secure raw materials access key to Europe’s green and industrial future

At the Green Transition Forum 6.0 in Bulgaria, held on 3 June 2026, Euromines PresidentJan Mostrom took part in a high-level panel discussion focused on Europe's industrial resilience and the future of its green transition amid increasing geopolitical and supply chain pressures. He underlined that Europe's competitiveness, strategic autonomy, and green transition all depend on one essential foundation: secure access to raw materials.

While EU initiatives such as the Critical Raw Materials Act and ResourceEU were welcomed as important steps forward, discussions in Sofia centered firmly on implementation. Turning ambition into delivery, speakers stressed, now requires predictable permitting processes, competitive investment conditions, coherent industrial policies, and stronger market signals for responsibly produced, low-carbon raw materials.

In the context of rising global competition for critical minerals and accelerating industrial decarbonisation, modern European mining was highlighted as a highly regulated, technology-driven and sustainability-oriented sector that plays a key role in securing resilient industrial value chains. Participants warned that without the ability to develop and operate critical raw materials projects within Europe, the EU's strategic autonomy objectives would remain difficult to achieve.