{"id":287784,"date":"2025-07-24T11:29:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T11:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/287784\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T11:29:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T11:29:17","slug":"france-says-european-satellite-venture-talks-are-making-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/287784\/","title":{"rendered":"France says European satellite venture talks are making progress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">PARIS (Reuters) -Efforts to set up a European space project alliance involving Italy&#8217;s Leonardo, France&#8217;s Thales and Airbus and aimed at challenging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/people\/elon-musk\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Elon Musk;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a>&#8216;s Starlink are making progress, said France&#8217;s industry minister on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a project which we support. Talks are moving forward in a constructive manner,&#8221; said France&#8217;s Marc Ferracci during a meeting in Paris with his Italian counterpart Adolfo Urso.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Urso said negotiations were aiming at giving the two countries an equal footing in the project, endorsed by French President Emmanuel Macron at the Paris Airshow in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Under the so-called &#8220;Project Bromo&#8221;, named after an Indonesian volcano, Leonardo, Thales and Airbus have been exploring plans to set up a new satellite manufacturing company to better compete with the U.S. and China, but so far progress has been modest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Leonardo&#8217;s Chief Executive Roberto Cingolani said last month that the three companies would make another assessment on where the deal stands by the end of July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta and Alvise Armellini, editing by Giulia Segreti)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (Reuters) -Efforts to set up a European space project alliance involving Italy&#8217;s Leonardo, France&#8217;s Thales and Airbus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[107471,2103,34,2000,299,107472,36,107473,6716,17461],"class_list":{"0":"post-287784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-adolfo-urso","9":"tag-airbus","10":"tag-emmanuel-macron","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european-space-project","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-industry-minister","16":"tag-marc-ferracci","17":"tag-thales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114907982419851964","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}