The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, explained on Tuesday 21 January that space is "a strategic issue for the EU and should be treated as such".
In a speech to the 12th ‘European Space Conference’ in Brussels, Mr Borrell said that "the rising geopolitical tensions we see on Earth are being prolonged and projected into space". In particular, he recalled that space was increasingly congested, contested and competitive.
Thus "we are...