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Yana Popkostova is the Director of the European Centre for Energy and Geopolitical Analysis. She previously served as Environmental Security Lead at the EU Institute for Security Studies and co-authored IRENA’s “Geopolitics of Energy Security” report. Her expertise focuses on the EU Energy Transition, industrial resilience, and strategic sovereignty.

Yana Popkostova

Sep 20 2025

The state of the union is steel

Illuminem Voices

Ethical Governance · Environmental Sustainability

Europe’s clean steel sector needs credibility, demand, investment, and fair trade, or the continent risks losing its industrial and climate edge

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