How Germany played its winning hand at ESA ministerial conference, & why German industry is on Cloud Nine

by Peter B. de Selding

PARIS — The German government maximized its impact at the European Space Agency’s ministerial conference by swooping in with about $400 million in perviously undisclosed cash in the conference’s final hours to claim or extend German leadership in a half-dozen programs.

Thomas Jarzombek, Germany’s Federal coordinator for aerospace policy, headed the German delegation to the conference and openly discussed the strategy after the meeting ended Nov. 28: http://bit.ly/34FRkVv

But the numbers behind the tactics . . .

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