Galileo: grounds for divorce?

[CHIMO]

At a summit meeting held late last month in Ireland, the United States and the European Union said they had ended a long dispute on a planned European satellite positioning system called ?Galileo'. Washington will no longer oppose Galileo, the future European equivalent of the American global positioning system (GPS).

The Galileo project is co-financed by countries such as China, India and Israel, and will be operational in 2008. But the small print of the EU-US agreement shows that the accord reached at the summit meeting is far from complete. In fact, the parties shied away from even trying to reach agreement about the core of the dispute: the crucial military applications of Galileo.


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