All your European coordinates are belong to US

[Jei]

 Europe GPS Plan Shelved
         
 BERLIN -- Exasperated European officials say U.S. pressure appears to
have torpedoed a $3 billion project to build a European version of the
U.S. global positioning system, which uses signals from orbiting
satellites to track geographical position within 36 meters.

The proposed system, dubbed Galileo, was intended to give Europeans more
autonomy, both industrially and militarily. That's no small concern, since
the United States can selectively block access to GPS, as it has during
the military campaign in Afghanistan.

Also, European plans to develop a rapid-reaction military force will
become much more credible with their own GPS in military operations.

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http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,49778,00.html




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