Rare earth reshore: Can the European Union overcome its deep reliance on China’s critical minerals supply chain?

The EU desperately wants to 'de-risk' its reliance on China, especially for rare earths — the critical minerals that are essential for today's technologies. But to accomplish that, the EU has to do a lot more than simply dig these minerals out of the ground. As Luke Patey reports this week, to turn its green aspirations into an industrial reality, the EU faces the meticulous task of building out all nodes of a long and complicated supply chain.