MEPs give go-ahead to Galileo

The International Herald Tribune reports on the European parliament's Wednesday vote endorsing new rules allowing the EU's controversial Galileo satellite system to tap the EU budget for the extra €2.4 billion needed to complete the project.

Approval by MEPs was the final political hurdle for the system, which only a year ago faced being abandoned after a consortium of private technology firms backed out, adds the New York Times.

"We are giving the go-ahead to one of the most important projects in the EU," Angelika Niebler of Germany, head of the parliament's industry committee, said. "This is a technology that we need."

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