Ministerial Council press conference, Luxembourg, on 2 December 2014

Press Conference after the ESA Council Meeting at Ministerial Level, Luxembourg, on 2 December 2014.

From left to right: Franco Bonacina, ESA Director General's Spokesperson, Mauro Dell’Ambrogio, State Secretary for Education and Research, Switzerland, Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, Etienne Schneider, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Economy, Luxembourg, and Fernando Doblas, Head of the ESA Communication Department.

Ministers in charge of space activities within the 20 ESA Member States and Canada met 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.