Europe is extremely dependent on overseas trade for elements like cobalt, lithium, graphite, titanium and rare earth elements. Germany and other EU countries rely heavily on imports of raw materials for use in key technologies, such as batteries, robotics and renewable energies. Often on one single supplier country like China. China supplies 98 percent of the EU’s rare earths, which are required in wind and solar energy equipment and battery production. Only one percent of the raw materials needed to m
