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Press Release: Raw Material Supply & Recycling for National and Economic Security
17 February 2025
Resilient critical minerals supply chains are crucial to Europe’s, the United States’, NATO’s and other allied nations’ security. While energy transition and technological needs have dominated the debate, military needs must become a priority.
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EU urged to invest Eur100 bil, impose tariffs on China batteries to boost competitiveness
04 February 2025
A new report by Dunne Insights and the European Initiative for Energy Security has found that Europe is several years behind China in the electric vehicle and battery sector, and offered several strategic recommendations aimed at closing this gap.
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Press Release: Securing Strategic Autonomy: €100 billion for EV battery independence
04 February 2025
Dunne Insights releases an independent report produced for EIES: Europe’s Auto & Battery Industry, Revolutionary Change – or Extinction. The brief proposes a European roadmap towards strategic autonomy in the global battery and electric vehicle (EV) industry, recommending €100 billion in targeted battery investments between 2025 and 2035.
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EIES reacts to the EU's Competitiveness Compass
03 February 2025
Unveiled by the European Commission on 29 January, the Competitiveness Compass is designed as a road map, based on the Draghi Report, toward strengthening Europe’s energy infrastructure and industrial base, addressing risky dependencies, and boosting innovation.
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Press Release: Strengthening Europe’s Strategic Sectors
29 January 2025
The European Initiative for Energy Security (EIES) published a new briefing, “Strengthening Europe’s Strategic Sectors: Coordinating Investment Policy for Resilience and Predictability”. The brief calls for the European Union to strengthen its regulatory arsenal through stronger trade and investment defence tools.
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EIES welcomes Sabrina Schulz as Germany Director
23 January 2025
The European Initiative for Energy Security (EIES) is pleased to announce the appointment of Sabrina Schulz as Germany Director. In this newly created role, Schulz will lead EIES’ operations in Germany, strategically advancing initiatives to promote a secure energy transition.
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EIES launches new risk-based framework for prioritising strategic technologies that improve Europe’s resilience and security
10 December 2024
A new brief by the European Initiative for Energy Security (EIES) urges the EU to radically prioritise the development of strategic technologies or technological areas amidst a heightened threat landscape and competitiveness challenges.
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Press Release: Amidst hybrid threats against critical infrastructure, EIES calls for coordinated risk-based assessments and a “security by design” framework for energy and supply chain resilience planning
28 November 2024
In response to the European Commission’s public consultation evaluating the EU’s energy security architecture, EIES calls for the upgrade and expansion of electricity infrastructure and embrace of strategic clean energy pathways to limit vulnerability to geopolitical risk.
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Politico Podcast: The challenges to energy security in Europe
20 November 2024
EIES' Executive Director joins ESLC-Europe member H.E. Jeppe Kofod, Evan Fuery from Equinor and NATO's James Appathurai to discuss what is needed to future-proof Europe's Energy system.
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Press Release: EIES Welcomes Jannicke Nilsson and Carlo Lazzarini to its Energy Security Leadership Council - Europe (ESLC-E)
17 October 2024
The European Initiative for Energy Security (EIES) is pleased to announce the addition of Jannicke Nilsson of Equinor and Carlo Lazzarini of PWO AG to its Energy Security Leadership Council (ESLC), bolstering EIES’ efforts to promote actions to secure a sustainable and resilient energy future for Europe and its global allies.
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Press Release: EIES Applauds the European Council's Vote to Increase Tariffs on Chinese-Made Electric Vehicles
04 October 2024
“Defensive measures, including tariffs and foreign direct investment screening, are essential to protecting Europe’s automotive sector in a playing field that has been distorted by billions in subsidies and deliberate overproduction, which has driven aggressive market capture in the electric vehicle sector....”
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Minds on mines: the mineral security imperative for Nato
23 Aug 2024
Benedikt Franke and Robbie Diamond
NATO admittedly has no shortage of challenges to navigate—including maintaining support for Ukraine, meeting defense spending targets, countering hostile Russian activities, and accelerating the build-up of the defense-industrial base.
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Press Release: EIES High Level Forum launches silo-breaking debate with Commission, NATO and Industrials on fundamentals of energy and supply chain security
10 July 2024
The European Initiative for Energy Security (EIES) convened a high-level event on Implementing a Whole-System European Energy and Supply Chain Security Strategy at Brussels’ Steigenberger Wiltcher’s Hotel. This pivotal gathering aimed to address the pressing challenges of energy security and supply chain resilience across Europe and allies.
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Press Release: NEW PAPER: “BUILDING ENERGY RESILIENCE FROM THE SEABED UP”
07 July 2024
As NATO kicks off its Washington Summit, the European Initiative for Energy Security (EIES) publishes a report looking at how Russia has evolved its decades-long strategy of weaponizing energy against the European continent from a broad geopolitical instrument into actual physical attacks.
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Wir brauchen eine klarsichtigere China-Politik
03 June 2024
Ambassador Joachim Bitterlich and Peter Flory
Die Partnerschaft zwischen Putin und Xi sowie Pekings Streben nach Technologiedominanz bedroht die EU und damit auch den Wohlstand in Deutschland, meinen Joachim Bitterlich und Peter Flory. Sie nennen drei Möglichkeiten, dem entgegenzuwirken.
The partnership between Putin and Xi and China’s quest for technology dominance threaten the European Union and with it, German prosperity. But there are ways to defend our interests and values.
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Podcast: The sweet spot: Between de-risking from China and Europe’s green future
17 May 2024
Mark Leonard welcomes Robbie Diamond and Janka Oertel to discuss de-risking and the future of Europe’s green industries.
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Podcast: The Jolt: Fail to prepare, prepare to fail
18 December 2023
The European Energy Security Initiative has just launched and aims to bring together political and industrial leaders to better prepare for potential future crises.
The initiative counts several notable names from the world of politics, the military and industry, including the EU’s former energy commissioner, Andris Piebalgs.
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Press Release: European Initiative for Energy Security Launches Effort to Strengthen Global, Allied Energy and Industrial Supply Chains
15 December 2023
A new organization driving realistic solutions to secure Europe's energy supplies while supporting the energy transition, strategic autonomy, and prosperity across the continent, the European Initiative for Energy Security (EIES), launched Thursday with a panel of leading voices, including European Commission Executive Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič, and the publication of its inaugural paper.
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A transatlantic opening on green industrial policy?
14 March 2023
The EU’s pending Net-Zero Industry Act and Critical Raw Materials Act need not be another point of contention between Brussels and Washington. Instead, it could help advance a new era of transatlantic cooperation to secure supply chains essential to our shared economic and national security, write Abigail Wulf and Kaare Nielsen.
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The raw truth of Europe’s raw materials
30 November 2022
Biden’s ‘Buy America’ plans are unnecessarily restrictive, but the EU can still reap benefits from partnering with North America to diversify its supply chains.
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