Reply to post: Re: All a bit unnecessary?

UK getting ready to go it alone on Galileo

Jon 37
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Re: All a bit unnecessary?

> I am however surprised that the EU is not more mercenary in its approach. The UK cannot get automatic access as a member state, but pay-for access given a set of conditions ...

The rules that the UK helped write say that PRS is only available to EU members, so any work on PRS has to be done in an EU member country. Partner countries can work on Galileo, but not the PRS part of it. The UK insisted on this, to help the UK to win a lot of the PRS-related work.

Ooops!

Also, changing the Galileo rules would mean that France and Germany get less work. That's not a votewinner for French or German politicians, and the Brexit deal can't pass without their agreement. Why would they agree to that?

> such as partial upholding of EU military goals and not attacking EU allies could surely be arranged.

We're still in NATO, which covers most of that. And we're not going to agree to have our forces fight and die as part of an EU armed forces under EU command, that would clearly be political suicide for the UK government to suggest. So there's nothing significant for us to offer there - certainly nothing to persuade the French or German politicians to vote for it.

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