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Sam Morgan

8 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read

@EURACTIV

🚂 Big night-train news. New services linking Vienna, Zurich, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Barcelona and more due to start launching in late 2021. More details on @EURACTIV euractiv.com/section/railwa…

FAO of downcast Brits: "The UK will be linked to the network at Brussels and Paris by the cross-Channel Eurostar - should it survive a period of immense uncertainty triggered by the pandemic and Brexit - as trains need to be specially designed to run through the undersea tunnel."

Scandinavians? Worry not. Your gateway will be via Hamburg and Brussels (eventually) euractiv.com/section/railwa…

@BackOnTrackEU

Where is Eastern Europe in all of this though? As @BackOnTrackEU notes, it's important regions are not isolated. Apart from the Barcelona-Zurich line in 2024, the Iberian peninsula is a bit out in the cold too

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*and the climate, obvz

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#EUCO preparation list:

- Look up 'fudge' in the Hungarian and Polish dictionaries;
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*it's 'koholmány' and 'banialuki' apparently

You're a multilingual lot.
1) are those two translations good?
2) any decent words for 'crap compromise' that also has a culinary double-meaning in your languages?

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Excellent

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