The European Union & Space Policy

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Aġġornata fi: 07 October 2018 |

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The European Union should be responsible for the space policy, with the European Space Agency (ESA) becoming an official EU Agency.

The European Union should sign and ratify all space-related (UN) Treaties:
http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties.html

ESA should maintain a partner-programme for Non-EU Member States (UK, Norway, Switzerland etc.) wich includes a minimum annual membership fee.

The actions by the US (Space Force) are threatening the principles of peaceful use of outer space. The EU should make it very clear, by signing the UN Treaties, that we stand for peaceful use of space for all of mankind and declare that the only organization that potentially could be allowed to have any kind of militarization in space, is the UN.

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Inactive user | 26 November 2018

Yes! This is something I’ve been touting for years - ESA as an EU agency.
ESA would have to ditch its bizarre age discrimination (no job if you’re over 55, even as accountant) and abandon the obsolete ‘juste retour’ principle which is distorting proper competition and doesn't give the best results.

ESA might however get even harder to get a job in, because of the demanding EU concours training, unless EU is willing to waive this for ESAs engineers, scientists etc. Highly specialised people like PhDs in aerospace engineering shouldn’t also be EU generalists!

Problem is this annexation will require unanimity according to the ESA convention. Do you see UK, Norway, Switzerland etc. agreeing to this?

Alternatively, EU countries could individually shift focus and investments into a growing GNSS agency (soon to be EU Agency for the Space Programme anyway) and leave ESA to dissolve upon its reduction to less than 5 five countries (ESA convention, art XXV).

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