19/12/2001 (Agence Europe) - French President Jacques Chirac deplores the fact that "the United States devotes six times more public money to the space sector than Europe does" and calls on the Fifteen to react to prevent the EU from being reduced to the status of a "vassal". In a speech delivered on Tuesday on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the "Centre national d'études spatiales" (CNES), the President of the Republic like Prime Minister Lionel Jospin stressed in this context the...