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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11767
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NEWS BRIEFS / Space

GSA sign 18-year contract for new EGNOS generation

12/04/2017 (Agence Europe) – On Thursday 6 April, the European GNSS Agency (GSA) announced that it had signed an 18-year €102 million contract with Eutelsat Communications covering the implementation of the new EGNOS Geostationary (GEO) space-based augmentation system (SBAS) payload service (GEO-3). The EGNOS programme seeks to improve the performances of the US GSP navigation programme in Europe. This contract ensures the continuous availability of the EGNOS Signal in Space (SIS) and...

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INSTITUTIONAL
HUNGARY: Commission concludes that there is no systematic risk to the rule of law
SECTORAL POLICIES
MIGRATION: Commission reduces European relocation target to 33,000 refugees instead of 160,000 laid down in 2015
MIGRATION: Commission wants to strengthen legal protection for unaccompanied minors
HEALTH: Denmark proposes compromise for intentional endocrine disruptors
JUSTICE: Virginie Rozière will head up European Parliament's report on protection of whistleblowers on her own
JHA: Fight against cyber-attacks is absolute priority for Commission
AGRICULTURE: Fertilisers - rapporteur suggests amending nitrates directive
AGRICULTURE: Commission publishes overview of protein crops
AGRICULTURE: Smart villages for better life in rural areas
FISHERIES: Confirmation of improvement in state of stocks, except in Mediterranean
FOOD SAFETY: Greenpeace criticises EFSA for ignoring pesticide cocktail in food
EXTERNAL ACTION
LIBYA: EU adopts €90 million programme on migration
MOLDOVA: Member States sign agreement on macro-financial assistance in Chişinău
HUMAN RIGHTS: Stavros Lambrinidis says that fighting terrorism does not mean stifling human rights
US: EU concerned by impending executions and calls for sentences to be commuted
DEVELOPMENT: By including aid to refugees in Europe in its calculation, EU public aid rises by 11% in 2016
JAPAN: Cecilia Malmström extols the advantages of a free trade agreement, her priority objective in 2017
ECONOMY - FINANCE
FRANCE: Paris trumpets return of government deficit below 3% of GDP in 2017
ITALY: Italian government counting on increased fiscal revenue to comply with Stability Pact
YOUTH
YOUTH: European Solidarity Corps to benefit from its own budgetary line after 2020
NEWS BRIEFS
SPACE: GSA sign 18-year contract for new EGNOS generation
REGIONS: European Commission allocates €50 million for renovation of Pompei archaeological site
GREECE: Lagarde says Greek debt restructuring terms should be worked out before end of aid plan