FUNDING FOR EU SPACE POLICY.

• Position: Brief article

In a resolution, adopted on 20 November, the European Parliament calls for study of the possibility of setting up a new budget line for EU space policy. "As the United States, Russia, Japan and even India significantly increase their space industry budgets and place more and more public orders, we Europeans are still trying to find appropriate funding to reach our objectives," argued rapporteur Pierre Pribetich (PES, France). To date, the EU's space activities have been financed on the basis of programmes, such as GMES (Global...