European space policies and programmes develop in institutions (the European Union, the European Space Agency, national agencies) that operate with different goals and modalities. The recent experience of the Galileo and GMES programmes seems to argue in favor of a more exigent organisation, likely to represent a true European concerted strategy in the space field. This is a major issue of power for Europe

Florence Autret, is a corresponding journalist in Brussels for Agefi and Télégramme and a teacher at IEP Paris.

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