Europe as an actor in the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
The United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) is the only body in theUnited Nations system exclusively dealing with the peaceful uses of outer space. Several European countries are member States of the Committee, as are the Eur
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Studies in Space Policy Volume 9
Edited by the European Space Policy Institute Director: Kai-Uwe Schrogl
Editorial Advisory Board: Herbert Allgeier Frank Asbeck Alvaro Azcarraga Frances Brown Alain Gaubert Leen Hordijk Peter Jankowitsch Ulrike Landfester Andre Lebeau Alfredo Roma
Christophe Venet Blandina Baranes (Eds.)
European Identity through Space Space Activities and Programmes as a Tool to Reinvigorate the European Identity In collaboration with Thomas Ballhausen and Ulrike Landfester
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Christophe Venet Blandina Baranes European Space Policy Institute, Vienna, Austria
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Preface The welfare and prosperity of Europes citizens depends on the internal and external development of the European Union. In a world, where Europes role and influence are at stake, all efforts have to be made to prevent a downturn. Being a leader in the globalised politics and economy goes hand in hand with an efficient internal setting. This is todays motive for the “Project Europe”, it is time to move from the simple protection of peace inside to the maintenance and further development of welfare and prosperity, as far as possible together in a sustainable way with the world around us. In this reasoning, making the European Union work is a matter of crucial importance. It, however, cannot succeed, if it is simply built on abstract rules, procedures and distant authorities. The “Project Europe” can only work, if the citizens join – besides grudgingly accepting institutions – in a European identity. Only this can provide, in the mid- and long-term, a solid foundation for a functioning Union in the inside and vis-a-vis the world. We are still far away from such a “European identity”. And this is why we should appreciate every single option and oppor
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