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According to an interview with Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic for the Financial Times, the Serbian government is about to greenlight the project to establish Europe's largest lithium mine.
In 2022, following massive protests, the Serbian government stopped the Jadar project. The announcement was made after the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts announced that implementing the Jadar project would devastate the environment.
"The implementation of the Jadar project would lead to massive devastation of space, permanent changes in the character of the landscape, degradation of the biodiversity of the land, forests, surface and underground water, displacement of local residents, cessation of sustainable and profitable agricultural activities," Velimir Radmilović, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, said.
Prime Minister Miloš Vučević emphasized lithium can be a severe advantage to Serbia.
"I believe it is possible to have an economy and preserve ecology, the environment, and people. I believe that the strategic advantage of Serbia is in ores and minerals, and we must take into account the national interests and the interests of our people and not the interests of private companies," Vučević said.

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