UK not being pushed out of EU satellite programme, Barnier says

EU's chief negotiator says Galileo participation will continue after Brexit but 'on a new basis'

The EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, has said Britain is not being pushed out of the Galileo satellite navigation programme, but that only "a little progress" had been made in recent talks on the UK's EU exit.

Barnier said British participation in the EU satellite programme would have to change as a result of Brexit. "The UK decided unilaterally and autonomously to withdraw from the EU," he told an audience of foreign policy experts in Brussels. "We need to put the cooperation on Galileo between the EU and the UK on a new basis."