The ESA Director General said: "In this moment of rapid change, there is a critical need to synchronise European initiatives by aligning space for defence competencies, avoiding duplication and pooling resources for scale. We still remain too fragmented to guarantee Europe with genuine, comprehensive and autonomous space resilience. We have an opportunity to change that, and we must."

The European Resilience from Space programme, to be proposed in Bremen on 26 and 27 November 2025, constitutes the first programmatic pillar supporting the future Earth Observation Governmental Service (EOGS) of the EU. This service is aimed at providing highly reactive, dual-use, independent space-based Earth observation capabilities to deliver rapid, reliable, and secure data, products and services. ESA Directorates central to the proposal were represented by Director of Earth Observation Simonetta Cheli and Director of Connectivity and Secure Communications Laurent Jaffart.