Swedish Sami Fear for Their Future as Europe Focuses on New Mines

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World leaders are meeting this weekend at the Munich Security Summit. For Europeans, one theme is paramount: increasing independence from other major powers. A key component of this is extracting rare earth minerals from their own soil, such as from the region above the Arctic Circle in Sweden. But the Sami community, the only indigenous people in the European Union, says this is driving them away. The potential new mine will be built precisely …