yeah they used the EU Global Gateway as a carrot, hence why you...

yeah they used the EU Global Gateway as a carrot, hence why you see this $3.5B figure tossed around. Ursula also visited Greenland, and Greenland is supposed to be under the EU Global Gateway (but I have not yet seen a road-map - which is one of the steps).
US MSP came afterwards, and made more progress than the EU.

When came down to it the EU CRMA had zero funds allocated. They also promised sovereign wealth funds to invest, Germany was (still is broke); Italy focused on domestic project. France assigned an investment house.

The post implementation notes ( JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on tackling China’s critical raw materials export restrictions) from July 2025.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/RC-10-2025-0324_EN.html

This is the snippet:

---- Germany did offer dilutive funding in the order minimum 50M euro, for equity but the caveats were a little crazy; makes Aussie Brokers look like angels lol