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most of what you wrote applies to Switzerland, yet they didn't feel the need to launch their own global navigation service.
by riffraff 6y ago
most of what you wrote applies to Switzerland, yet they didn't feel the need to launch their own global navigation service.
- microtherion 6y agoI believe Switzerland is a Galileo member: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_13_1292 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_13_... Plus, millennia of mountain living have provided us with an unerring sense of direction anyway.
- riffraff 6y agothat was my point, sorry if I wasn't clear: Switzerland joined Galileo while being non-EU member, the UK could have done the same rather than launch their own system.
- microtherion 6y agoThere might be a path dependency there. Switzerland was never an EU member, and negotiated to join a number of EU institutions as a special case. It's not clear that the EU was even prepared to offer a similar deal to a departing member. Furthermore, the EU has become less and less enthusiastic about these kinds of arrangements, so even Switzerland is finding it harder to join individual deals.