GALILEO

|GALILEO as a major technological, economic and political challenge

|A system that both competes with and complements the American GPS system

|The future of GNSS: GALILEO + GPS

|Unquestionable economic viability

|European GNSS: A two-step approach

As stressed in the European Commission White Paper on European transport policy for 2010, the European Union needs an independent satellite navigation system. Galileo is Europe's contribution to a global navigation satellite infrastructure (GNSS).