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From
Satellite News. 29th June 2009. The
EU's much delayed satellite navigation network project
Galileo has been ill-prepared and badly managed, the
European Court of Auditors charged Monday.
"The programme lacked a strong strategic sponsor
and supervisor: the (European) Commission did not proactively
direct the programme, leaving it without a helmsman,"
the auditors' court opined after carrying out an audit
of the ill-starred project. |
As
well as the commission -- the EU's executive arm --
the 27 member states came into criticism for promoting
their own industries first and foremost.
"Owing to their different programme expectations,
member states intervened in the interest of their national
industries and held up decisions. The compromises made
led to implementation problems, delays and, in the end,
to cost overruns," the official auditors declared. read
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