{"id":641877,"date":"2026-05-01T03:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/641877\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T03:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:40:13","slug":"france-and-spain-want-space-reserved-for-eu-firms-in-satellite-frequencies-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/641877\/","title":{"rendered":"France and Spain want space reserved for EU firms in satellite frequencies \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a last-minute addition to the agenda for Thursday\u2019s meeting of digital ministers in Nicosia, Spain and France said the EU must include satellite spectrums in its wider effort to set up a preference for homegrown technology, effectively excluding foreign-owned firms from critical sectors, according to a text seen by POLITICO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is time to decide whether we want our skies to be stronger or dependent,\u201d Spain&#8217;s Digital Transformation Minister \u00d3scar L\u00f3pez told his counterparts on Thursday. &#8220;It is time to make European satellite industry great again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the ground to the sky, infrastructures like telecommunications are a critical asset if we truly believe in digital sovereignty,\u201d L\u00f3pez said. The minister said national capitals must be closely involved in the auction.<\/p>\n<p>European Commission tech chief Henna Virkkunen told reporters that the spectrum allocation will be &#8220;co-legislation&#8221; involving both the Commission and EU countries. Brussels is finalizing its proposal, which will come out \u201cvery soon,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Just this week Beijing <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/217551\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">threatened<\/a> retaliation if Brussels limits the access of Chinese companies to the EU&#8217;s critical tech sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Virkkunen said any restrictions on the providers of critical tech infrastructure \u201cwill be a very, very tailor-made approach.&#8221; She added any limitation \u201cwill look at each component and what kind of risk and how to mitigate the risks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a last-minute addition to the agenda for Thursday\u2019s meeting of digital ministers in Nicosia, Spain and France&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,512,281,10829,10830,2592,10836,4217,203,20410,128,4206,8247,285,2020,32320,1055],"class_list":{"0":"post-641877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-cloud","12":"tag-communications","13":"tag-companies","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-henna-virkkunen","16":"tag-infrastructure","17":"tag-mobile","18":"tag-satellites","19":"tag-science","20":"tag-security","21":"tag-software","22":"tag-space","23":"tag-spain","24":"tag-spectrum","25":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}