On the whole it is a success for Europe. This is how one should consider the Council's decision in favour of the Galileo project. I do not just mean a technical success but a success more generally: a success from the political, military, economic, technological, industrial and "society" points of view.
A question of independence: It is a political success, because the fifteen governments unanimously decided not to take American opposition into account. The United States had spared no...