Kristian Stout on the EU Space Act and Its Impact on U.S. Satellite Providers

Kristian Stout April 3, 2026

Kristian Stout, ICLE Director of Innovation Policy, was quoted in a CEPA article on the EU’s proposed Space Act and how its regulatory framework risks imposing discriminatory burdens on American satellite providers and escalating transatlantic tensions. Read the full article here.

In practice, the Act’s most onerous obligations will apply only to large American companies, starting with Starlink. The EU Space Act’s “discriminatory provisions” represent “nontariff barriers in trade negotiations,” contend Kristian Stout and Eric Fruits of the Portland-based International Center for Law and Economics.