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posted by janrinok on Friday May 25 2018, @09:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the one-step-forward,-two-steps-back dept.

Britain ramped up a Brexit space row with the EU on Thursday, saying it will demand repayment if it is excluded from the Galileo satellite navigation project. Newspaper reports suggested London could seek £1 billion ($1.34 billion, 1.14 billion euros) in compensation for its investment in the programme.

Brussels has said it will deny London access to Galileo's encrypted signals after Brexit, citing legal issues about sharing sensitive security information with a non-member state.

A report issued by Britain's Department for Exiting the European Union said it had "strong objections" to being frozen out of the 10-billion-euro programme and called for an "urgent resolution to the exclusion". "Should the UK's future access be restricted, the UK's past contribution to the financing of space assets should be discussed," the report said. The British report suggested it may have to reopen negotiations on the £39 billion (40-45 billion euros) Brexit "divorce bill" that was agreed in December to make up for its exclusion. It said the deal agreed then had provided for Britain's continued involvement in the Galileo programme, which has important uses in both the civilian and military fields.

[...] Britain played a major role in developing Galileo, an alternative to the US's GPS, which is expected to be fully operational in 2026. It demands continued British access to the secure signal and a right to compete for contracts. Britain is looking into developing its own, separate system if the EU maintains its position, and has also raised the question of Galileo's use of Britain's overseas territories as monitoring bases.

[...] The Times newspaper reported Thursday that the decision to block Britain was being led by a "German-backed clique" in the European Commission, and that it had caused a rift with French officials, who were reportedly unhappy with the plan. Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands and the Baltic states have also objected to denying Britain access, said the report.


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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 26 2018, @05:46AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 26 2018, @05:46AM (#684381)

    > If you don't know this, you are 14 and belong on Reddit. This is a site for adults.

    Yes. Only a *real* adult would have a handle like "fakefuck39". That doesn't sound like a 14 year old at all.

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  • (Score: 0) by fakefuck39 on Saturday May 26 2018, @08:06PM

    by fakefuck39 (6620) on Saturday May 26 2018, @08:06PM (#684648)

    Yes, real adults who are close to 40 years look at user handles on some random website as something that defines them and is important - definitely not some random thing they just type in when prompted to create a logon. I am indeed 14. The "fake" part of "fakefuck39" is social commentary on the hypocrisy of the ruling class and all the people working 9-5 in big offices and feeding the machine. The "fuck" part is showing those hypocrites the finger. 39 has nothing to do with age. 3 in Hangul is "sam" - and "sam" in Russian means "myself" - which says I am also fake and fuck my own hypocrisy that I don't notice 3. 9 in English is "nine" - which sounds like the German "nein" for "no", and that's just saying "no" to the Nazis, because I'm a jew.