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"Mr President, I add my compliments to Mr Alyssandrakis for his report and the work that he brings to this particular field of our committee's activities. My first observation is that the use of space for research and for commercial applications is often overlooked in the wider world because it is not as dramatically exciting as projects like the Apollo moon landings, yet it is extremely important, as this report emphasises. I welcome the objectives set out in the communication for European policy. I confess I particularly like paragraph 10, which calls on the industry to do more about commercial exploitation of space. That is an important way ahead. We want industry to be very much involved in the exploitation of space. It seems to me that this report is something of an appetiser – or hors d'oeuvre – for the Galileo report, which we will be considering next month in our Strasbourg part-session. Paragraph 12 in particular refers to Galileo as being part of the European strategy and to its importance for transport. We should take careful note of that. We have to recognise the difficulties in obtaining funding for space exploitation, space research, space utilisation. I particularly welcome also the reference in the report to the need for international cooperation drawing in other powers and partners. I come back to the question of using military applications for peacekeeping operations. To be realistic, we need funding from defence budgets for space projects in a number of fields. We should not be frightened of drawing on that source of funding for applications intended for peacekeeping. That is very important to emphasise. I regret that Mr Alyssandrakis has taken fright at my reference to military applications. He should take more note of the phrase "peacekeeping operations"."@en1
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