Towards an enlarged partnership - ESA's relations with the Czech Republic,Hungary, Poland and Romania

In October 1999, ESA organised a two-day Workshop in Budapest together with the Hungarian Space Office, with a view to analysing existing relations be tween ESA and its partners in Central and Eastern Europe, namely the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania. The Workshop's main objectives were to discuss the results of the existing cooperation and to present ESA's new programmes and activities, as well as its administrative procedures and re gulations. The space authorities from the four countries also presented the ir own space programmes and plans.