Massimiliano Salini (EPP, Italy), European Parliament rapporteur on the draft European space programme regulation, proposes increasing the overall budget from €16 billion to €16.7 billion in order to boost funding for the encrypted GovSatCom communications programme and the space surveillance programme (SSA).
While welcoming the overall increase in the budge proposed by the European Commission in its proposal (see EUROPE 12035), the MEP says that the budget for the above two programmes...