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Galileo: full support

Galileo gets full EU backing

Spain gives approval to industry plan for ground control centres

Written by Tom Young

Computing, 03 Dec 2007

Support from Spain has established EU-wide support for the controversial Galileo satellite navigation project.

All member states apart from Spain approved plans last Thursday. But Madrid rejected the scheme because it wanted a ground control centre on Spanish territory to have equal importance as those in Germany and Italy.

The agreement on control cetnres in different EU states operating as a networkl and therefore having equal importance, was amended on Friday, said EU Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot.

In September the European Commission decided to meet a €2.4bn (£1.7bn) funding shortfall for the Galileo European satellite navigation system by reshuffling resources from agriculture and research budgets.

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