CIAO DATE: 03/2012
December 2011
Centre for European Policy Studies
In this latest Policy Brief on raw materials, CEPS Associate Research Fellow Roderick Kefferputz takes stock of some of the current developments in commodity markets. Almost a year after the publication of the European Commission’s Communication on Raw Materials, he finds that new circumstances have advanced a misplaced optimism and the pursuit of national interests by EU member states, which impede common European efforts to secure natural resources.
Resource link: Time for a Common European Effort on Raw Materials [PDF] - 101K