Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 03/2012

Time for a Common European Effort on Raw Materials

Roderick KefferpĆ¼tz

December 2011

Centre for European Policy Studies

Abstract

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.