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The Alyssandrakis report has the value of acknowledging and underlining the remarkable efficiency of the European Space Agency, an intergovernmental body and major world player in the area of space research and space applications. The ESA sharply refutes those who, on ideological grounds, claim that intergovernmental cooperation can only lead to inefficiency and deadlocks. On the contrary, the ESA foreshadows the Europe of the future, one that will unite and draw together wills and skills varying from one domain to another.
Our main task is therefore to preserve at all costs the partnership dynamic that has been launched between a number of States, which are aware of the crucial importance of the space industry for Europe’s independence. The ESA is fortunate in that it escapes the cumbersome bureaucracy of paralysing procedures. Let us take good care, therefore, to keep the ESA out of the Community loop, which in no way prevents us contemplating various methods of cooperating and working together. Let us, above all, try to avoid turning the ESA into a European institution. It would not make any sense to do this either, because some members of the Agency, large members at that, are not members of the European Union. Our second task, as the rapporteur points out, is to retain the high level of technological capability that we have gained by granting ‘substantial and sustained public support for space development in the various forms we see in our competitors: dual programmes and massive research aid’.
The absurd deadlock over Galileo, which means that we remain dependent on external systems in the fundamental area of satellite navigation, shows, on the contrary, to what desperate impasses the Community method can lead. The ability of a few, more flexible, links in the chain to cause deadlock is enough to paralyse a project that is crucial to European independence."@en1
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