Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/336160 
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2025
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[Journal:] Intereconomics [ISSN:] 1613-964X [Volume:] 60 [Issue:] 6 [Year:] 2025 [Pages:] 313-316
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Paradigm Publishing Services, Warsaw
Abstract: 
In its urgent search for critical raw materials, Europe is overlooking a key strategy: demand reduction by keeping resources in use for as long as possible. Given that its economy is more exposed to trade than the US and in a weaker geopolitical position, Europe needs to build on its strengths. It could achieve greater autonomy through circularity and sufficiency, most notably through eco-design, improved recovery of materials for secondary use and innovation. The EU's agendas for economic security, strategic autonomy and competitiveness would all benefit from a stronger circularity strategy.
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F43
Q56
Q26
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