LE BOURGET, France — France and Germany are resisting a European Commission-generated proposal that the European Space Agency (ESA) commit around 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) to start work on a global network of high-resolution imaging satellites to be used for European Union security purposes.
It’s partly a budget issue. France will have trouble keeping up with ESA’s proposed 36% increase in its three-year spending plan, to around 23 billion euros, that the agency is assembling for the November meeting of its 23 governments . . .
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