GALILEO FUND IN GREFUSAL
December 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLEuropean Union transport ministers have dealt a heavy, and possibly fatal, blow to the EU's Galileo global positioning project by refusing to provide finance for the crucial development stage of the programme. The 3.6 billion euro (pounds 2.2 billion) Galileo scheme is designed to establish a satellite-based tracking system that, when operative in 2008, will allow transport operators and others to pinpoint positions on earth and reduce dependence on the American GPS navigation system which is shared with military users and where signals to ...
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