Theresa May is resisting efforts to keep Britain in parts of the EU’s Galileo satellite programme in a late reversal of negotiating positions. In one of the divorce’s most bitter wrangles, Brussels said that Britain should lose access to the €10 billion mission to develop a global positioning system. It insisted it would not be able to use its encrypted military grade signal, vital for applications such as missile guidance systems, after Brexit. British space companies also faced being blocked from contracts worth hundreds of millions. Because Britain would be a so-called third country after leaving it could not share in the development or use of secret technology under EU law, Brussels argued. In August Mrs May announced that the government was spending almost £100… Want to read more? Subscribe now and get unlimited digital access on web and our smartphone and tablet apps, free for your first month.
Britain Prime Minister Theresa May does not want UK to remain part of the EU's Galileo satellite programme post-Brexit. The EU previously said UK should be denied access to the project because a third-party country could not be allowed access to EU secret technology. In August, May announced a Britain investment of £100m ($129m) to research its own version of the global positioning system. May has told her cabinet she will not re-open negotiations over Galileo, according to an unnamed source. However, French President Emmanuel Macron would like the Britain to remain part of the project.