Members of the European Parliament want the Union's earth monitoring programme, GMES, to be financed from the EU budget. This has been the case until now, but under the European Commission's budget proposals for 2014-2020, the programme would be financed on the basis of an intergovernmental agreement, outside the EU budget. In a resolution on the EU's space policy, adopted in plenary in Strasbourg on 19 January, MEPs express determination to place this programme back into the multiannual financial framework 2014-2020. Any other decision "could cancel out the huge investments made so far," warned rapporteur Aldo Patriciello (EPP, Italy) before the vote.
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