Brigitte Zypries, Parliamentary State Secretary Brigitte Zypries, Member of the Bundestag German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, (center) and Johann-Dietrich Wörner, Chairman of the Executive Board of DLR (right) at the ESA Council at Ministerial Level at the ESA Council Meeting at Ministerial Level, Luxembourg, on 2 December 2014.
Ministers in charge of space activities within the 20 ESA Member States and Canada meet to take key decisions on Europe's launcher programmes, the European Participation in the ISS Exploitation Programme, the future European strategy for exploration and the evolution of ESA.