The GPS is a US military project. It is old and the positioning data is not precise enough for civil navigation, road tolls and so on.
The Galileo network will give EU states guaranteed access to a space-borne precise timing and location service independent of the US (Galileo is an EU vanity project, say MPs, www.computing.co.uk/2203185).

The US is lobbying hard to keep its global strategic monopoly as no modern war can be fought without its GPS. UK politicians are dancing to Uncle Sam’s tune again. How short-sighted.

Catalina Martinez