Despite years of protests by environmentalists, the government in Serbia is clearing the way for lithium mining in the Jadar Valley in the west of the country. This was reported by the Serbian news agency Tanjug. One of Europe’s largest reserves of this globally scarce raw material, which is important for the electric car industry among other things, is said to be located near the town of Loznica. With a new decree, Belgrade bowed to a ruling handed down by the Serbian Constitutional Court a few days earlier. According to the ruling, the annulment of the regional planning procedure for the lithium mining project in 2022 was unlawful.