22 July 2026. GreenX Metals Limited (ASX:GRX, LSE:GRX, GPW:GRX, Germany-FSE:A3C9JR) (GreenX or the Company) is pleased to announce that fieldwork has commenced at its Eleonore North project in East Greenland (Eleonore North or Project). The exploration program is targeting gold (Au), tungsten (W), and antimony (Sb).

GreenX’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr Ben Stoikovich, commented: “Greenland is an exciting frontier for GreenX, and this program advances a portfolio of gold, tungsten and antimony targets that has seen very little modern exploration.

Tungsten and antimony are critical raw materials for both the European Union and the United States, and Eleonore North gives us high-grade occurrences of both in a stable Western jurisdiction at a time when supply is heavily concentrated in China. Importantly, the tungsten and antimony mineralisation has a surface expression, which allows us to make rapid progress in expanding the known mineralisation and generating additional targets.

This year we are in the field to advance our existing prospects, including the Noa Pluton gold-antimony target and the North and South Margeries deposits. At the same time, our growing understanding of intrusion-related gold systems in the region has enabled us to identify a number of new targets.’’

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Boosting transatlantic ties is a ‘moral imperative’ amid geopolitical turmoil, says minister for mineral-rich Canadian province.

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Quebec and Europe should deepen economic ties and seek to bolster their collective supply chain resilience, the Canadian province’s international affairs minister has said, citing mounting tensions with Washington and Beijing.

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America’s tariffs and China’s export controls on strategically critical minerals have led Quebec to “double down” on its relationship with Europe, a continent with which it shares deep historical, social, and cultural bonds, the Christopher Skeete said.

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The only Francophone-majority jurisdiction in North America, Quebec shares “common values, common views of the world, [and] a common fate” with Europe, Skeete said.

“We’re doubling down on that right now, hoping to go further and do more. We believe in a deeper relationship with Europe as a way of mitigating some of the risks of having a single client, which historically has been the US.”

The comments come amid warming ties between Canada and Europe over the past year, as Donald Trump’s sweeping levies, ambivalence toward NATO, and threats to annex Canada and Greenland spur efforts to boost economic and defence cooperation.

Quebec’s manufacturing-heavy economy has been hit especially hard by this geopolitical upheaval. Trump’s duties have hammered the province’s export-dependent industries, particularly its aluminium smelters. More than 70% of Quebec’s exports go to the US.

The province – which shares competence for its economic affairs with Canada’s federal government – is also highly susceptible to disruptions in the supply of critical minerals, which are used in numerous modern technologies and whose production is dominated by China.

However, the mineral-rich territory is increasingly producing lithium, graphite, and many other elements deemed strategically critical by Brussels. “We can help Europe be more sovereign, but also reduce its dependency on Asian supply chains,” Skeete said, adding that the province is seeking to boost both its mining and refining capacity.

Asked whether breaking Beijing’s chokehold on the world’s critical mineral supply will be difficult, Skeete replied: “It’s not a question about whether or not it’s difficult. I think it’s a moral imperative. I think we have no choice.”

Skeete also touted Quebec’s ability to bolster Europe’s defence sector, noting that a Montreal-based company is the only Canadian firm so far to land a contract under the EU’s €150 billion ‘SAFE’ loan scheme.

“We definitely want a second SAFE programme,” he said. “If we don’t right now use this opportunity of a changing world to deeply integrate our economies, I think we’re missing out on a huge opportunity.”

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The EU’s tech chief has warned that AI has become a geopolitical weapon, pushing for Europe to develop its own alternatives.

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Brussels last month presented a tech sovereignty package to loosen its dependence on US technology by backing European alternatives in sectors from semiconductors and cloud computing to AI.

The plan has incentives to accelerate the construction of European data centres and favour homegrown cloud and AI technologies, such as the AI company Mistral or cloud providers such as Scaleway or OVHcloud.

“It’s so important also that Europe is building up our own capacities and that we are not dependent on third countries for these very critical technologies,” Virkkunen said.

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In order to finance those investments, the EU and the European Investment Bank will set up a new mechanism to make strategic investments in European tech companies.

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The “kill switch” risk is the clearest political image. “If a foreign government can require a provider to cut access, change model availability, restrict compute exports or expose data under national law, European users face a dependency that is not merely commercial. It becomes strategic,” writes EUToday in a an article covering the issue.

If European institutions and governments want domestic or trusted AI capacity, they must create demand. That could mean buying European models for public administration, supporting sovereign cloud frameworks and funding compute infrastructure through EU-European Investment Bank mechanisms.

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Virkkunen’s warning should therefore be read as a policy marker. Europe is no longer discussing AI sovereignty only to create champions. It is asking whether critical functions can be interrupted from outside the Union. That is a harder and more practical question.

The next phase will be judged by execution rather than vocabulary. Europe has no shortage of strategies on cloud, data and AI; the test is whether they translate into compute capacity, procurement demand and viable companies able to serve public and private clients at scale.

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