Jean-Yves Le Gall and Geneviève Fioraso

Jean-Yves Le Gall, President of CNES (left) and Geneviève Fioraso, the French Secretary of State for Higher Education and Research, 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.