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I believe Switzerland is a Galileo member: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_13_1292 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/e

• riffraff 6y ago
  that 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 ago
    There 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.