For crucial minerals, the European Union looks to Australia rather than Russia

As talks on a free trade agreement pick back up, the European Union wants to stop depending on Russia for the supply of essential raw resources like lithium and iron ore and instead turn to Australia.

The crisis in Ukraine and Australia's sanctions on Russia as a result of that conflict, according to Cornelis Keijzer, head of trade and economics at the EU Delegation in Australia, have forged deeper ties between Australia and the ....