Slim,
The future EU system you describe will be no better than the US one
I would call having 50-80 better than just 24 - simplistic I know
Assuming of course Galileo succeeds in integrating the three systems.
It's all down to money, IMO. Another example of rip off Britain?
It is rather immoral that tax money (I assume) is being used to fund an entrepenurial (sp?) enterprise. But if there isn't any money in it, it will never happen and it needs to happen.