BARROT WARNS OF GALILEO DELAYS, CALLS FOR EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT SUPPORT OVER FUNDING
March 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLEUROPEAN Union (EU) transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot has sufficiently worried the EU Council of Ministers about the shaky future of EU global positioning satellite network Galileo that ministers have requested a long-term financing plan. This will be written by the European Commission while concession negotiations continue between the bidding consortium and Galileo's GNSS Supervisory Authority over the division of work. Ministers called for "substantial progress" in talks "so by June the Council has adequate assurance the concession ...
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