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Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, off you go: Snout of UK space forcibly removed from EU satellite trough

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So the Europeans will be refunding what we’ve paid so far?

If we refund the amount that was paid for work done in the UK.

These projects are all pork-barrel, you pay X% you get (X-bit)% of the work, small countries get the %bit.

Overall it costs a lot more because some system that makes up 50% of the budget has to be built by 5 different 10% partners, small parts are normally just duplicated.

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