Brussels, 07/12/2005 (Agence Europe) -Although the EU space programme is somewhat bogged down and the forthcoming financial perspectives are unlikely to give it much of a shot in the arm, the European Space Agency (ESA) will have to continue to live with an average annual budget just under 3 billion EUR. By means of comparison, the American Agency has a budget of 16.5 billion dollars for 2006, an increase of 2.4% on 2005, and China (which has just successfully carried out its first manned...