During the meeting, which took place under the slogan “Promoting investments and innovation between the EU and Argentina in sustainable and responsible value chains”there was dialogue with possible investments on the extraction, processing and refining of the value chains of the Critical Raw Materials in Argentina.
The governors of San Juan participated in the meeting, Marcelo Orrego; Jujuy, Carlos Sadir; and from Mendoza, Alfredo Cornejo; and the president of the Argentine Agency for Investment and International Trade (AAICI), Diego Sucalescaamong other national and provincial authorities.
Lucero highlighted the vision shared by political leaders, both at the national and provincial levels, that mining must be a pillar of economic reactivation. “The favorable public opinion on mining is unprecedented, both among voters and consumers; “This encourages the ruling classes to support the industry and its importance more strongly,” he pointed out.
The Raw Materials Week (RMW) It has been organized by the European Union annually since 2016. It attracts more than 1,000 participants from industry, administration, civil society, research and academia from different European countries.
In this sense, the EU works to guarantee safe and innovative access to critical minerals through strategic partnerships and circular economy initiatives, and Argentina has large reserves of copper and lithium to offer and respond to this demand.
The Argentine delegation also held bilateral meetings with the Commissioner for International Associations, Joseph Sikela and other recently elected EU Commission authorities; with company representatives Glencore, Eramet, Adionics, McEwen Copperamong others; and various multilateral financial entities, export credit agencies and investment funds such as IDB Invest, the German Development Bank (KfW), the Association of European Development Financial Institutions (EDFI), the French Development Agency ( AFD), the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), the financial institution of the Netherlands, Invest International, and the European Investment Bank (EIB).
In these meetings, the Argentine authorities raised their investment needs, especially in infrastructure, and specified the financing instruments.
The head of the AAICI, Diego Sucalescahighlighted that “the evident positive evolution of the Argentine economy in this last year, the implementation of the Large Investment Incentive Regime (RIGI) and the agreement reached days ago by Mercosur and the European Union (EU) are very “important to accelerate investments by European companies in Argentina.”
“In 2025 we want to achieve several objectives. One of them is to carry out a trade mission to Argentina in which authorities from European companies can see first-hand the progress that the country has made. Although the world is in constant change, companies seek scenarios of predictability and stability. For that reason they are looking at Argentina as a land of opportunities,” he concluded.
Source: Ambito
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