ESA’s Director General Jan Wörner met the press on 7 November, 2016, at ESA headquarters, to provide an overview of the upcoming Council at ministerial level.
ESA’s Ministerial Council (CM16) is being held in Lucerne, Switzerland, on 1 and 2 December 2016. Ministers in charge of space activities from the 22 ESA Member States and Canada will meet to decide on future space activities for Europe.

CM16 will further the vision of a ‘United Space in Europe’ in the new era of Space 4.0.