European agree – our security is on the right track and the momentum is building.
The mandate for EU action is definitive:
🔹 74% support for defence investment.
🔹 52% trust the EU to strengthen security.
🔹 53% see Space Policy as a key security tool.
68% of citizens believe their country is under threat. Europe is ready to step up.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116079450649446984
@EUCommission What does the #EU do against the real threat of #spaceDebris and #space #pollution by US corporations like #SpaceX & Co? The space is not a military room, it is at first nature and our vulnerable atmosphere! We only have this one planet!
https://mastodon.online/@sundogplanets@mastodon.social/116079450784889577
Thank you for asking about this, @NatureMC. Last year we put forward a proposal for the EU Space Act, which introduces measures to improve the tracking of space objects and limit the creation of new debris. This includes requirements for safe satellite disposal at the end of their operational life, aiming to prevent cascading collisions that could render key orbits unusable.
More information here: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1583
@EUCommission @NatureMC Than you for using Mastodon not just to post, but also to interact and explain political proposals 🙂👌🏼
@EUCommission @NatureMC The EU Space Act is a fantastically good step in the right direction! Thank you!
@[email protected] Small heads up for somebody in the web content team; it looks like in some software links to specific articles under the 'presscorner' url get shown with a preview from the press corner index page rather than from the article linked. I think this is because the canonical link set in the head of the individual article pages is set to the url of the index page.
For example, in the post I'm replying to I see a link in the text which takes me to the article you're referring to, but a preview "box" from ec.europa.eu/commission/pres... (which is listed as the canonical source of the content on the article page)
@EUCommission Ah, great! Thank you. I searched so long for such informations.
So, as in other areas, we have slept through a lot. But at least we are slowly waking up and taking action. Hopefully it's not too late.
@EUCommission Europe needs also digital independence.
Now US produce strategic digital services like Visa, Mastercard, Microsoft (operating systems of over 90% of computers), digital infra of health care ect.
This must change. Europe and european lives can not be dependent from the good will of digital olicarchs of the US.
We have already seen how US shut down all digital services of the judge of the International Criminal Court. Same could happen to anyone.
@EUCommission Good that (small) majority see that critical strategic areas like space, are critical and strategic.
But public needs to be informed more about all of this. I live in Finland so defence and strategic thinkin is something that I and we have allways done. As US keeps digging deeper into facistic Gilead policy thread might also come from the west. As Greenland case demonstrated. Europe needs to wake up. If we want to be independent.
@EUCommission missing from picture: our defence spend will continue include lucrative trade with a genocidal regime, even though we are in breach of international law and basic human decency.
@EUCommission Maybe something can be to done to support those that want to take a more active role in Ukraine's defence.
@EUCommission
Well lets hope some of that money goes into building independence from the US and not just into buying stuff from US defence companies...
