{"id":149593,"date":"2026-04-13T16:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149593"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:45:07","slug":"eu-launches-operations-of-critical-minerals-procurement-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149593","title":{"rendered":"EU launches operations of critical minerals procurement platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe European Union on Monday launched \u2060the critical minerals \u2060section of its energy and materials \u2060procurement platform, which aims to give more power to regional buyers and cut dependence on dominant producer China by aggregating their purchases.<br \/>\nThe platform is part of the bloc\u2019s RESourceEU strategy, announced in December \u200cto develop its supply chains for rare earths and other strategic minerals needed for the energy transition and defence applications. China controls up to 90 per cent of&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3349956\/eu-launches-operations-critical-minerals-procurement-platform?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe European Union on Monday launched \u2060the critical minerals \u2060section of its energy and materials \u2060procurement platform, which aims to give more power to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149593"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}