WorldcrunchOsservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa (OBCT) is an Italian study center and online news source that was founded in 2000. OBCT is specialized in south-eastern Europe, Turkey, eastern Europe and the Caucasus, focusing on EU policies and media freedom, civil society, and cohesion policies.
A $2.4 billion project to exploit lithium deposits in Serbia’s Jadar Valley could cover 90% of Europe’s current lithium needs. But the plan has sparked protests across the country and created an unlikely coalition of opposition, which President Aleksandar Vučić’s government has sought to suppress.