28 Apr 2021 | News Parliament finalises €15B EU unified space programme All EU space activities now in a single orbit, in hopes of making Europe a global leader in space Parliament’s rapporteur for the Space programme, Massimiliano Salini. Photo: European Parliament The European Parliament has finalised a new €14.8 billion (in current prices) seven-year EU space programme, which will for the first time bring together all EU space activities under one roof. Running the space programme under a single regulation is intended to get rid of redundancy and overlaps between the European Space Agency and the European Commission. “What was missing was a single structure that would involve a strategy, a European strategy, which would play the role of bringing together the entire European space programme,” the Parliament’s rapporteur for the programme, Massimiliano Salini, said in the final debate. ”This is something that we’ve come up with now.”