Europe launches its first space commissioner straight into a budget scrap – POLITICO

It's not just fending off Russia on Earth that's going to keep Andrius Kubilius busy as defense commissioner; his job also includes space and the struggle to line up investment.

“European funding in this area remains very modest,” said Hermann Ludwig Moeller, the director the European Space Policy Institute in Vienna. “There is an outstanding need to have a clear direction towards top-level priorities."

But that's not very likely to happen.