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Internal row brewing between Council/Parliament vs Commission over creation of new EU Space Programme & post-Brexit UK's place in it. Member States & MEPs have agreed on it. But Commission seems to fear it could open a loophole for UK to keep decision making powers on Galileo.
Commission spokes: 'In case of UK withdrawal from EU, Commission has been consistent 3rd country access to development of security sensitive matters such as manufacturing of PRS security models is not possible. We have a duty to defend institutional prerogatives of this house.'
EP President Tajani: 'Commission should intervene only in case the agreement reached distorts the proposal in a way that prevents the achievement of the original objectives. I hope the agreement will be respected together with timeline foreseen for adoption of Space Programme.'
The row is also, as ever within the EU, about money and who controls which bits of the budget. Commission spokes says the Council/Parliament agreed plan 'raises problematic issues in terms of the Commission's financial and budgetary obligation'.
