12/12/2018 (Agence Europe) – In a letter sent to the ministers responsible for competitiveness on 7 December, the President of Eurospace, Jean-Loïc Galle, expressed a degree of impatience regarding the slow pace of negotiations in the Council on the Space Programme Regulation. "Any delay in adopting the Space Programme Regulation may have very damaging consequences for the whole European space sector", according to the President, who stressed the need for a general approach under the Austrian Presidency of the European Council in order to be able to start negotiations early next year. It should be remembered that the text is firmly stuck in the Council’s corridors because of a German block on the subject of space governance (see EUROPE 12150). The European Parliament will adopt its position on Thursday 13 December. (PH)