Until recently, a member of the European Parliament and politician of the German Greens, Viola von Kramon-Taubadel, criticized today the EU-Serbia partnership agreement in the field of sustainable raw materials and assessed that the citizens of Serbia and the region will not benefit from it, but only the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, the "tycoons". and Rio Tinto.
She stated this after representatives of Serbia and the EU signed a Memorandum of Understanding on strategic partnership on sustainable raw materials, battery production chains and electric vehicles and a Letter of Intent on the development of the e-mobility value chain in Serbia today in Belgrade.
The central point of the agreement is the exploitation of lithium in the Jadra valley near Loznica.
"That we in the EU need lithium for the transition to e-mobility is indisputable. But I wished for different solutions than this strengthening of Vučić's power. The rule of law and democracy are unknown terms for Vučić. The media is almost entirely under his control," wrote Fon. Kramon on platform X.
She said that "it is unlikely that the profits from lithium production will end up in the households of people in the region".
"Furthermore, the money will end up with friendly tycoons and companies. The European Union must closely control the issues of distribution and ecology, and not delegate it to Vučić and Rio Tinto," Von Cramon wrote.
She added that a transparent participation process is needed, not a unilateral expropriation process led by Rio Tinto.
"It is necessary to find, among other things, solutions for farmers. The state has remained indebted to its citizens in recent years," concluded Fon Kramon.
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