Spaceopal’s two equal shareholders – Telespazio and DLR-GfR – have signed an agreement to renew their partnership for management of operations in the Galileo programme in the years and next generations to come.
“Germany is the largest economy in Europe, so it should also be our goal to have the strongest and best-equipped army in the EU," said Germany's defence minister Boris Pistorius.
"Europe can bolster its defence to a new level by developing shared European capabilities with even greater determination," says Esa Rautalinko, President and CEO of Patria.
Germany has a new defence minister: SPD politician and former interior minister of Lower Saxony, Boris Pistorius, will succeed the outgoing incumbent, Christine Lambrecht.
European Defence Agency, the European Commission and Member States are working on the secon Military Mobility Action Plan.
Director-General Timo Pesonen has signed, on behalf of the European Commission, a Copernicus Cooperation Arrangement with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan.
European defence budgets are increasing in the wake of Russia’s war on Ukraine. But if member-states don’t co-ordinate their spending better, fragmentation will persist and Europe’s defence industry could weaken.
“This spaceport offers an independent European gateway to space. It is exactly the infrastructure we need, not only to continue to innovate but also to further explore the final frontier,” said Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission.
The European Defence Agency launched a new project on to improve the technology behind automatic targeting, as well as in threat recognition and identification, as European militaries seek to make soldiers and weapons systems more effective in battle.
The U-35, one of the German Navy Type 212-class submarines, returned to a naval base in Eckernförde and completed its service on the Mediterranean Sea as part of the European Union Naval Force Mediterranean IRINI (EUNAVFOR Med Irini).
NATO and the EU agreed to create a taskforce on resilience and critical infrastructure protection.
Lynred announced the launch of HEROIC, a European Defence Fund project aimed at developing highly-advanced electronic components for next-generation infrared (IR) sensors.
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