An amendment on the EU’s general budget for 2017 slipped through almost unnoticed in the vote in the European Parliament’s budgets committee at the end of September (see EUROPE 11635). Yet it could add significantly to the clout of the space industry in public-private research partnerships and the Horizon 2020 programme, according to a source contacted on Monday 10 October.
The amendment in question was put down by Marian-Jean Marinescu (EPP, Romania) and relates to a pilot project on...