SATELLITE CENTRE
June 1st, 2001
BY ALAN OSBORNSPAIN has expressed concerns to European ministers about delays in transferring control of the civilian-military Torrejon satellite imaging centre, near Madrid, from the increasingly obsolete Western European Union defence organisation to the European Union, which is setting up its own rapid reaction force. It was agreed at the EU summit in Nice last year that the changeover should be completed by January 2002. However a number of EU member states have insisted on a full audit of the function and structure of the Torrejon centre before the transfer ...
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