GALILEO SHOULD BE PUBLICLY FINANCED SAYS EUROPEAN COMMISSIONER
May 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has suggested the European Union's (EU) global positioning satellite network Galileo be built and put into orbit under public sector funding alone, abandoning its current private-public partnership scheme. Protracted disputes between contractors within the prospective consortium chosen to develop Galileo have made it highly likely the project will miss its 2012 launch deadline and the Commission is losing patience. It has now asked EU ministers to change the initial organisation of Galileo, reserving private sector ...
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