Ladies and Gentlemen ... Gentlemen, Gentlemen! Margrethe Vestager feels like an outsider! Space is a male-dominated industry. Research shows that even well-meaning mentors direct female engineers into less technical, less valued roles. It’s no wonder so many women end up leaving the space industry.
Margrethe Vestager full Speech at 12th European Space Conference 2020.
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A few years ago, the Danish TV show Borgen aired an episode that was all about the government choosing a new European Commissioner. With a nod to the famous tagline of the movie Alien, it was titled “In Brussels, no one can hear you scream.”
The idea, of course, was to suggest that Brussels – like space – is so distant from people’s everyday experience that nothing that goes on there really makes a difference. But my five years here in Brussels, as a European Commissioner, have proved beyond all doubt that this just isn’t true. Because Brussels – or rather, the European part of our democracy, when working synchronised with business, national governments and civil society – plays a vital part in Europe’s success.
I am looking very much forward to these new responsibilities. I am looking forward to get to know you and to learn a lot. I am looking forward to achieving jointly what is in the title of the conference: it is a new decade, we have global ambitions.
What I know though is that space is endlessly fascinating. Secondly, whatever is in space is relevant here on the planet and thirdly, that it takes money.
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