EU ‘pulling out all stops’ with minerals projects as it tries to avert China trade war

Séjourné said the EU would support the 46 projects to accelerate supplies of critical raw materials by 2030. Photograph: Thierry Monasse/Getty Images

The EU is “pulling out all the stops” to fend off an imminent potential trade crisis with China, the industry commissioner, Stéphane Séjourné, has said, as the bloc announced its backing for a string of critical materials projects.

Séjourné said on Friday that the EU would support 46 new strategic projects to accelerate supplies of critical raw materials by 2030 across the bloc.