{"id":47393,"date":"2025-04-24T19:28:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T19:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/47393\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T19:28:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T19:28:30","slug":"europe-wants-swedens-minerals-thats-more-bad-news-for-the-sami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/47393\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe wants Sweden\u2019s minerals. That\u2019s more bad news for the Sami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">A CENTURY ago Swedes labelled Kiruna, a town in the north, \u201cthe land of the future\u201d. Rich in iron ore, it became the backbone of Swedish industry. Its mine grew so vast that the ground beneath it collapsed, forcing much of the town to relocate. History is now repeating itself. A newly discovered deposit of rare-earth metals\u2014the largest in Europe\u2014has placed the town at the heart of Europe\u2019s green transition. The mine will be a key part of the European Union\u2019s Critical Raw Materials Act, which aims to source 10% of the bloc\u2019s essential minerals domestically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A CENTURY ago Swedes labelled Kiruna, a town in the north, \u201cthe land of the future\u201d. Rich in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,812,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-47393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-sweden","12":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114394595809010644","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}