Vucic: Lithium mining project to enable Serbia's quantum leap to future

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday lithium production in Serbia would enable the country to take a quantum leap to the future and that it should be a dependable partner to Europe, Germany and the whole world in the overall lithium production chain, where full environmental protection would be ensured.

At a plenary session of a Summit on Critical Raw Materials, also attended by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and European Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic, Vucic said work on this with people from Scholz's cabinet had taken a long time and that Serbia had made major demands.

He said lithium mining would bring "billions and billions worth of investments" and a step forward for the entire country, mostly Loznica and the Jadar region in western Serbia.

He said full environmental protection was the first of three key points in...