Europe's satellite-navigation system, Galileo, will have to be built with public funds if it is to be built at all, says the European Commission. It has put forward proposals for the stumbling space project to be completed with taxpayers' money — not the private finance as was originally envisaged. (BBC News, Thursday)
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