Czech PM Mirek Topolanek used an EU leaders' dinner on Thursday (14 December) to accuse some western EU states of trying to sabotage Prague's bid to host a new satellite centre by casting "vague" doubt on its security credentials.
"Some member states have...started to ask for new and rather vague criteria of a security manner to be applied," he said, with the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Italy also officially in the running to host the headquarters of the EU's new satellite...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.