Name: International Space Summit in Paris, France
Uploaded: 2026-09-09T13:03:20+00:00
Duration: 1819 s

00:00 - 00:54

Intervenant 1

Times of crisis. Commissioner Kubilius, under your responsibility for defense and space and under your leadership, the Commission is working to strengthen Europe's security, resilience, strategic autonomy, and notably through IRIS², GOVSATCOM, the security dimension of Galileo, and the European Space Shield. So we can imagine that these programs will generate growing operational needs and will require the secured access to orbit. So Commissioner, I would like to start this roundtable with you and with a broader European perspective. In the current geopolitical context we all know, what must now happen to turn these individual successes we just spoke about into reliable, responsive, and sovereign European access to space at scale?

00:54 - 03:41

Intervenant 2

Well, first of all, thanks a lot for organizers of this really wonderful summit, both to President Macron and to French and German governments that they, you know, brought us to speak about most important issues. And of course, when we are speaking about space in a very practical way, definitely perhaps all of us we understand that launching is the basis for space, everything what is happening in space. Sometimes we are forgetting, we are talking about exploration, about some other nice things, but if we shall not have launching, we shall have nothing. So I can tell you very simply that, you know, for Commission and I hope for ESA, launching is now very clear strategic priority. And of course, I would join also, you know, congratulations to Daniel for bringing some kind of new, I would say, historical, you know, step forward in development of launching in Europe.

So I would, I could conclude here my statement, but maybe I will try to elaborate a little bit more. You know, I'm always saying that, well, if to make things a little bit, to try to describe things a little bit simpler, for me always this metaphor that space is a new frontier is very, very, how to say, very valuable. And if you will look into new frontier, you know, or let's say history of new frontiers, always transportation means were most important. Horses, ships, you know, railways, aviation, that was what doing, what was making, you know, those frontiers becoming closer to development, to industrialization and so on and so on. So if there would not be ships, you know, I don't know if somebody would be able to find America or, you know, or other, other continents.

So that is what does it mean transportation. And here definitely, you know, if we're looking into launching as transportation to space in Europe, of course we need to see all the problems which we're facing now. And definitely when we're talking very much now in new global developments, geopolitical developments, that we need to strengthen our independence, definitely launching, European launching by Europeans from European continent, from available European launching pads, that's one of the priorities which we need to, to see as a clear priority for all of us.

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