Good news from ESA today. Galileo has been contracted to European consortia and will build the first 14 of the Galileo constellation.
Couple this with Lisbon, the dual-use of European navigation tech and the wider securitisation and militarisation of the EU and we can see a very competent self-reliant EU emerging, albeit with significant hurdles yet to jump.
Could this be the beginnings of a concrete withdrawal of European reliance on the Americans? The Common Foreign and Security Policy and the European Security and Defence Policy will be given greater life and potential with a fully functioning Galileo system in future.
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