Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-01-19-Speech-4-337-937"
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"With over 65 million passengers per year passing through the terminals of Heathrow, my constituency of London is home to the world’s busiest international airport – a great responsibility. The EGNOS and Galileo programmes are both key elements of EU space strategy which makes air travel safer by improving the accuracy of position – the new technology gives pilots their position to within a couple of metres. While I appreciate that new satellite technology can help improve passenger safety, we must be mindful of costs at a time of economic austerity. Last year, the Commission revealed that it would need a further EUR 2 billion to complete the Galileo project. The entire project will cost EUR 22 billion, almost entirely funded by the EU taxpayer. When this system was first proposed, we were told that costs would be considerably lower and that private investment would mean that taxpayers would only have to foot a bill of around EUR 2.5 billion. Space may be the final frontier, but we need to prevent the cost of this project going to infinity and beyond."@en1
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