{"id":5937,"date":"2026-04-20T11:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/5937\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T11:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:05:13","slug":"merz-touts-brazils-potential-on-critical-metals-says-germany-can-supply-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/5937\/","title":{"rendered":"Merz touts Brazil&#8217;s potential on critical metals, says Germany can supply technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">HANOVER, Germany, April 20 (Reuters) &#8211; Germany Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday that \u200cBrazil had great potential to expand deliveries \u200cof critical metals, adding that Germany can supply the \u200btechnology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;There are significant opportunities in the cost-effective extraction of certain metals required for e-mobility and wind turbines,&#8221; Merz said at the Hanover \u200cindustrial fair alongside \u2060Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;Germany is prepared to support \u2060Brazil with technological know-how and expertise in order to further expand these relations,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Speaking \u200bvia a \u200btranslator, Lula said \u200bhis country had expanded \u200cits investment in critical minerals and rare earths, but that his government would &#8220;not accept any models that reduce our country to mere resource extraction, serving only to meet demand \u200cfrom abroad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Lula added that \u200bBrazil was seeking to ramp \u200bup defence \u200bcooperation with Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;We are engaged in \u200cdialogue regarding strategic areas such \u200bas tanks, \u200bair defence and drones, as well as joint projects,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">German-Brazilian government consultations \u200bare due \u200cto take place later on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by \u200bAndreas Rinke, Writing by Friederike Heine; \u200bediting by Matthias Williams)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HANOVER, Germany, April 20 (Reuters) &#8211; Germany Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday that \u200cBrazil had great potential&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[387,5862,5863,393,5,5861],"class_list":{"0":"post-5937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-brazil","9":"tag-critical-metals","10":"tag-critical-minerals","11":"tag-friedrich-merz","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-luiz-inacio-lula-da-silva"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}