In Serbia, there is a lot of lithium, money and political interest at stake. Under the farming lands of its Jadar valley, geologists from mining giant Rio Tinto found Europe's largest lithium deposits - an amount enough to produce at least one million electric car batteries a year. 

Together with Nemanja Rujevic and Nathalie Bertrams (photography) I explored what is at stake in Serbia and the EU when it comes to the Jadar mine. We researched how political parties capitalize on this controversial project with the aim to dent the President Alexander Vucic’s autocratic rule and explore claims of pollution, biodiversity loss and mismanagement in the west of Serbia.

See more about the project, which was funded by Journalismfund.eu, here.