EU – CHINA – GALILEO
September 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN AGREEMENT has been struck between the European Commission and China over Chinese participation in the European Union's GALILEO global positioning satellite communications project. Assuming it is ratified, the deal will create co-operation on satellite navigation and related telecoms service development. It would allow China to take a "substantial financial part" in the programme, helping to fund the GALILEO Joint Undertaking, the programme's management body.
AN AGREEMENT has been struck between the European Commission and China over Chinese participation in the European Union's GALILEO global positioning satellite communications project. Assuming it is ratified, the deal will create co-operation on satellite navigation and related telecoms service development. It would allow China to take a "substantial financial part" in the programme, helping to fund the GALILEO Joint Undertaking, the programme's management body.
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