31 March 2025 - Informal environmentalist organization Eko Straža has submitted a letter with 100,000 signatures to the Delegation of the EU to Serbia

26 March 2025 - Project Jadar will be labeled strategic in the EU, according to President Vučić. Activists say they would dispute such a status as well as the already designated mining proposals.

25 March 2025 - The European Commission adopted a list of strategic projects for raw materials. They are eligible for administrative support and financing.

20 March 2025 - Rio Tinto's lithium project Jadar in Serbia is among the candidates for strategic status under the EU's Critical Raw Materials Act

13 March 2025 - This was not the first protest against lithium mining in Lopare. A similar gathering was organized about a year ago.

07 March 2025 - The battery industry is entering a new phase, the International Energy Agency said, pointing to demand surge and the constant price decline

27 February 2025 - Within the Clean Industrial Deal, the European Commission aims to raise up to EUR 100 billion for the Industrial Decarbonization Bank

04 February 2025 - Activists organizing a protest outside of the European Parliament in Brussels against lithium mining in Serbia claim a new documentary is biased

31 December 2024 - In 2024, the readers of Balkan Green Energy News were mostly interested in investments in the region's energy transition as well as the EU's CBAM carbon dioxide border tax

27 December 2024 - Serbia-based Marš sa Drine Green Legal Impact from Germany have urged the European Commission not to award a strategic status to the Jadar project

17 December 2024 - The Council of the EU called on unlocking financing for geothermal energy, streamlining regulations and a boost to equipment manufacturers

11 December 2024 - The COP29 Global Energy Storage and Grids Pledge calls for increasing capability by six times to 1.5 TW by 2030