EU INSTITUTIONS REFUSE TO ABANDON TROUBLED GALILEO PROJECT
November 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LETS Hope Galileo really makes a difference to European Union (EU) global positioning and navigation telecommunication services. Because, now the additional spending to guarantee its deployment has got the formal go ahead from the EU Council of Ministers, it is going to cost EU taxpayers dear. In fact over the next seven years, they will be stumping up Euro 3.4 billion to be precise. That's no small change, even for a multinational group of rich (and fairly well-off) countries such as the EU. And what's more there are some doubts that this ...
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