According to some estimates, total shale gas reserves in place in the EU exceed 56 thousand billion cubic metres (BCM) of which some 14 thousand BCM might be technically recoverable.

China possesses 36% of confirmed global reserves of rare earth elements and 59% of estimated total reserves and, at the same time, is endeavouring to conclude bilateral agreements in order to secure proven reserves throughout the world.

China has 36 % of the world’s known economic REE reserves (and an estimated 59 % of the total reserves) and at the same time pursues bilateral agreements for securing known reserves worldwide.

For instance, it was reported that Taiwan increased its euro holdings to about 35 % of total reserves, up from 20 %.

27. Insists that the European Union should make its voice heard within the United Nations, to ensure that the many countries which have expressed reservations regarding the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, to the effect that they would comply with the obligations deriving therefrom provided that they do not clash with certain customs, practices or national laws, withdraw those reservations, given that they are totally incompatible with the spirit and purpose of the Convention, and are therefore unacceptable;

In this context it must be noted that the total reserves of the Eurosystem come to more than EUR 350 billion.