Talking space: The European Commission's changing frames in defining Galileo |
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Authors: | Paul Stephenson |
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Affiliation: | Department of Political Science, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | This paper traces the way in which the European Commission has framed and reframed the issue of EU satellite navigation over 20 years. It investigates how the EU's agenda-setter has ‘talked about’ space policy, with a particular focus on Galileo, and how its own institutional discourse – as revealed in its communications throughout the agenda-setting stage of Galileo's ‘definition’ phase – evolved in the 1990s through the use of ‘frame sets’. In so doing, it illustrates the ways in which, over time, the EU's executive has ‘projected’ the issue of independent satellite navigation capabilities as being politically and economically desirable for Europe, and has sought to persuade decision makers of its cross-policy relevance and potential economic, social and security benefits. The article deconstructs official documents and engages in a close-up analysis of policy formulation, to identify nascent, evolving and mature frames in the definition of Galileo. |
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Keywords: | European Commission Framing Agenda-setting Satellite navigation Trans-European networks Galileo |
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