Anticipated cuts in the EU's next space budget were mentioned with anxiety by many actors present at the 2020 European Space Policy Conference in Brussels on Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 January.
Among them was the European Space Agency, which made no secret of its deep concern about the latest proposals of the Finnish Presidency of the EU Council (see EUROPE B12383A11), which envisage reducing the space policy budget to €12.7 billion (compared to €14.4 billion in constant prices proposed...