Policy

EIES’s program is organised around four priority policy priority areas. These are:

  • Driving investment in European minerals extraction and processing projects; supporting the recycling of metals and minerals; and developing concrete global mechanisms and third-country projects that support secure, sustainable supply chains.

  • Prioritising and fast-tracking the manufacturing of strategic clean technologies that deliver economic prosperity and security for Europeans; and promoting industrial complementarity across Europe, allies, and like-minded countries.

  • Accelerating the deployment of energy generation and transportation infrastructure, particularly through electrification; and promoting public-private collaboration to ensure infrastructure security in the face of growing physical, cyber, and technology risks.

  • Strengthening Transatlantic energy security and trade cooperation; developing concrete EU-G7-Global South projects through the Global Gateway and Mineral Security Partnership; and driving global supply chain resilience and sustainability mechanisms and new trade agreements.

Research

EIES undertakes in-depth research through a network of energy and security experts to inform policy and business decisions on European energy and supply chain security.

EIES recruits experts to support our research on a rolling basis. Use the link below to get in touch with our policy team.

Publications

  • December 2024

    EIES convened NATO’s recently appointed ASG for Innovation, Hybrid and Cyber, Jean-Charles Ellermann-Kingombe, alongside DG ENER’s Ditte Juul Jørgensen, and industry experts for a roundtable discussion on policy and industry solutions to address growing cyber and physical threats to energy infrastructure and supply chains.

  • December 2024

    Europe faces unprecedented security challenges, including the largest armed conflict on the continent since World War II and escalating hybrid threats such as weaponised trade. This brief advocates for the adoption of a risk-based approach to European security, encompassing national security and economic security.

  • July 2024

    For over a century, Russian strategists have understood the critical role of energy, especially electricity, in national cohesion and resiliency. This publication examines Russian strategies to date, analyse recent Russian actions in Europe, and discuss ways Europe and the US can harden their energy infrastructure, build resilience, and devalue, dissuade and defeat the Russian threat.

  • June 2024

    As Europe’s political and economic leadership considers how to compete in this environment and deliver the energy transition in a way that provides security and economic prosperity, it is important to reflect on China’s own industrial strategy and modus operandi in global supply chains to understand the scale of this geopolitical and economic challenge, and craft policies to address it.

  • Mar 2024

    On 21 February 2024, alongside SAFE’s Center for Critical Minerals Strategy, EIES convened a group of subject matter experts and industry players along critical raw materials supply chains to assess and address risks posed by strategic dependencies on China.

  • Developing a Roadmap to Strategic Autonomy and a Competitive Energy Transition

    Dec 2023

    EIES’s launch paper examines Europe's strategic energy supply chain dependencies and vulnerabilities, identifying a path for derisking the energy transition while safeguarding industrial competitiveness.

  • Critical Raw Materials: NATO's Alternative Futures

    May 2023

    . . . Europe’s dependency on Russian gas made us vulnerable. So, we should not make the same mistakes with China and other authoritarian regimes. We must not become too dependent on products and raw materials we import. (NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Munich Security Conference, February 2023)

  • Food for Thought: Managing the Transition

    Jan 2023

    The energy challenges that the world faces today are increasingly global in nature. As we look for a path towards a safe, secure, and clean energy future, we must widen our perspective to find a path to address those global challenges together.