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17 - The Space Policy of the European Union

from Global Challenges: International Politics, the Planet and the Universe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2023

By
Emmanuel Sigalas
Edited by
Mathieu Segers  and
Steven Van Hecke
Mathieu Segers
Affiliation:
Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
Steven Van Hecke
Affiliation:
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
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Summary

The European Union’s (EU’s) space policy (EUSP) is one of the more interesting EU policy areas, even though it is one of the newer and lesser known ones. Officially, there is no EUSP, but rather a European Space Policy (ESP). Space became one of the EU’s competence areas in 2009, when the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU), also known as the Lisbon Treaty, was ratified. Satellite navigation and positioning have security dimensions and it is odd, to say the least, that the EU owns Galileo, a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) comparable to the better-known Global Positioning System (GPS) owned by the US government.

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The Cambridge History of the European Union , pp. 442 - 468
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Krige, J. Fifty Years of European Cooperation in Space (Paris, Éditions Beauchesne, 2014).Google Scholar
Paladini, S. The New Frontiers of Space (Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Suzuki, K. Policy Logics and Institutions of European Space Collaboration (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2003).Google Scholar
Hoerber, T. C. and Sigalas, E. (eds.). Theorizing European Space Policy (Lanham, MD, Lexington Books, 2017).Google Scholar

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