The European Commissioner for Internal Market, Thierry Breton, assured that the suspension of the Soyuz launchers at Kourou in French Guiana, announced by the Russian agency Roskosmos, would have “no consequences on the continuity and quality of the Galileoand Copernicus services”, in a statement published on Saturday 26 February.
The Commissioner added that the Russian announcement, which is a response to EU sanctions imposed on Russia (see EUROPE B12899A2), does not affect the...