Member States' ambassadors to the EU (Coreper) gave the green light to a partial agreement to start negotiations with the European Parliament on the Regulation establishing the European Union Agency for the Space Programme on Wednesday 19 December in the late afternoon.
At the Competitiveness Council at the end of November, negotiations between delegations stumbled on Germany's position, which was against the extension of the role of the Commission and the GSA Agency (see EUROPE 12150)...