Abstract
This paper examines the Galileo satellite navigation system as an example of European collaboration, and illustrates how the project has put Europe and European industry at the forefront of the space industry. It discusses the history of the program as well as its technical and financial aspects. The collaboration efforts are discussed highlighting the nature of the political, economic and technological forms of both intergovernmental and supranational cooperation. In addition to the Galileo system, the paper also includes a brief discussion on the Global System for Mobile Communications, one of the greatest successes of European technical collaboration.
Highlights
In a recent New York Times article titled Europe the Unready, Paul Krugman states that “European unity has suffered setbacks” but that “ideally, Europe would respond to these setbacks by strengthening its union, creating more of the institutions it needs to manage interdependence” (Krugman, 2015)
This paper examines the Galileo satellite navigation system as an example of European collaboration, and illustrates how the project has put Europe and European industry at the forefront of the space industry
This paper offers a brief analysis of one of the key European collaboration efforts in the space sector - the Galileo satellite navigation system - and compares this project to one of the most successful cases of collaboration in the telecommunications sector - the Global Standard for Mobile Communications (GSM) - where cooperation and collaboration between European governments, industry, and standard setting bodies under the guidance and leadership of the European Commission helped to establish the GSM project as a global standard for the communications sector in Europe and around the world
Summary
Maddens Toscano, Pedro (2016) "Galileo: European Collaboration for Space," Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union: Vol 2016, Article 4.
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