I suspect that, if it was launched this weekend, they'd probably committed to the expenditure before the Euro was introduced!
http://www.3news.co.nz/EU-launches-its-first-satellite-navigation-system/tabid/1160/articleID/230525/Default.aspx
Indeed: "years of delay".
"The Galileo system has become for some a symbol of EU infighting, inefficiency and delay."
No surprises there, either.
