The EU has put together a list of 47 mineral projects it wants to fast track for permitting in the next 15 months. 

“We do not want to replace our dependence on fossil fuels with dependence on raw materials,” Vice-president responsible for industrial strategy Stéphane Séjourné told reporters in Brussels today. “Chinese lithium will not be tomorrow’s Russian gas.”

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/25/chinese-lithium-must-not-become-the-new-russian-gas-says-eu-industry-chief

Easier said than done. In 2023, I visited the site in rural northern Portugal where the EU wanted to open its largest lithium project. It's still not being mined. 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/portugal-lithium-climate_n_664f8595e4b058247fa206f3