This is the first episode in a podcast series on EU trade policy and the rise of geopolitics, hosted by Prof. Joachim Schild from the University of Trier. His first guest is Bastian Dürr, MA, who discusses how the European Union is working to secure access to critical raw materials amid geo-economic and geopolitical tensions with the People’s Republic of China. Bastian Dürr currently is about to finish his Ph.D. thesis on this topic.

This episode was recorded in November 2024