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Critical minerals

From Evian to Brussels: five-days of non-stop G7 and EU summits. What are they achieving?
18 June 2026 by Benjamin Fox
The EU’s successful push back on a US pricing plan for critical minerals and more commitments on sanctions and defence support for Ukraine were the main breakthroughs at the French-hosted G7 summit – which is followed immediately by an EU summit.
G7 expected to deliver minerals pact, but EU resists Trump’s minimum price plan
15 June 2026 by Benjamin Fox
The Trump administration has been pushing a plan for minimum pricing of critical minerals shaped by a Pentagon-drafted formula. But EU leaders fear this could replace one dependency (China) with another (the US).