Serbia has been the bridgehead for Chinese industrial capital in Europe for a decade (Zijin's copper mines, HBIS's Smederevo steel mill, Linglong tires), and the new tranche extends the playbook into humanoids and AI infrastructure. The relevant detail for operators: Serbia sits inside the CEFTA free trade area and holds free trade agreements with the EU, EAEU and China, which makes it the cleanest jurisdiction in Europe to assemble Chinese-origin humanoid components and ship into the single market without triggering the same tariff scrutiny now hitting Chinese EVs.
Watch which OEMs land. If Unitree, Agibot or a Geely-affiliated humanoid program shows up alongside the auto-parts spend, this is the same supply chain reuse thesis (motors, batteries, reducers migrating from EV lines into humanoid lines) playing out on European soil rather than in Guangdong. €940 million does not build a humanoid industry on its own, but it buys the first factory and the labor pipeline, which is what every Western humanoid company is currently missing.