JANES AIRPORT REVIEW
January 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLEurope's ambitious Galileo programme to establish a global satellite navigation system is clearly a project that likes to keep its supporters in a state of fairly constant nervous tension. At a cost of 3.2 billion euros, Galileo was never a sure-fire runner to begin with. Some EU countries, notably Britain, Germany and the Netherlands, openly wondered if this was the kind of commercial venture the Union should be involved in and whether it was not better left wholly to the private sector. The US government was sceptical, saying it saw "no ...
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