| Date: | Sunday November 30, @01:15AM |
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UPDATE: U.S. (PNAC) Claims Europe's Galileo (GPS) is a threat to global security
By David Wastell in Naples and Colin BrownJack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, fuelled fears of a transatlantic rift over the European Union's defence policy yesterday when he refused to reveal how Washington had reacted to news of a controversial deal struck by Britain, France and Germany.
It is believed that Colin Powell, the US secretary of state, telephoned two European foreign ministers on Friday seeking urgent clarification of the deal, which will allow the EU to conduct its own military operations independently of Nato.
The plan will also be discussed by Nato defence and foreign ministers at meetings in Brussels this week, where critics are expected to include Donald Rumsfeld, the hawkish US defence secretary.
Mr Straw spoke to Mr Powell on Thursday, the day after the deal was struck in Berlin, but said his response would have to remain one of the "secrets of the confessional".
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The Global Positioning Satellites which can help answer that question are a matter of life and death, and the key to an array of multi-billion dollar industries.
America dominates the world of GPS. But it faces a European challenger - the Galileo project, and the Americans are worried. They're even claiming that Galileo is a threat to global security.
Our Science Editor, Susan Watts, investigated whether America's real interest is its military dominance of space.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3092858.stm
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