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Kirchberg, Luxembourg Author Zulflow Licence copyright waived by the owner Jane Lambert There has been a lot of interest in space in this country with the passage of the Space Industry Act 2018  in March and the UK Space Authority's recent announcements of the first UK vertical launch facility in the UK (see Lockheed Martin and Orbex to launch UK into new space age   16 July 2018) and the venue for the next UK Space Conference (see Wales announced as host for UK Space Conference 2019   17 July 2018). I have blogged about those developments in Commercial Exploitation of Space: Space Industry Act 2018   10 April 2018 NIPC Law, Space Industry - Licensing Spaceports   11 April 2018 NIPC Law and Newport to host UK Space Conference   19 July 2018 NIPC Severn). There has been similar interest in space in other parts of Europe and in particular Luxembourg which has recently enacted legislation on the exploitation and utilization of space resources.   The Luxembour

Curate's Egg Author  George du Maurier Jane Lambert The dialogue between the curate and his bishop runs as follows: Bishop: "I'm afraid you've got a bad egg, Mr Jones"; Curate: "Oh, no, my Lord, I assure you that parts of it are excellent!"  The white paper on  The future relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union   has not satisfied many people on either side of the Brexit debate, but it is not all bad.   In fact, just like the curate's egg two parts of it could well be described as excellent. One is a commitment at para 148 to: "explore a new bilateral agreement with the EU, which would cover a coherent package of rules on jurisdiction, choice of jurisdiction, applicable law, and recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil, commercial, insolvency and family matters. This would seek to build on the principles established in the Lugano Convention and subsequent developments at EU level i