The fact that Europe is working hard to gain strategic autonomy in the field of critical raw materials is something that we have often discussed in our podcast. But to make that happen you also need the industries to implement this.
A sector that remains relatively underexposed is the chemical sector, even though it can play a crucial role in building our own industry in critical raw materials. That is why there must be a National Chemistry Plan. The question is what this should look like.
In this first episode of De Strateeg, Paul van Liempt talks about this with Jacqueline Vaessen, chair of Top Sector ChemistryNL and Lucia van Geuns, energy expert at The Hague Center for Strategic Studies (HCSS).
