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12 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Pieces like this from @AnnikaJoeres frustrate me

Please what has Delli *practically* done to save night trains?

Don't get me wrong, she's a decent MEP, and it's good to have a green in this position, but what practical change has EP made happen?

zeit.de/mobilitaet/202…
Also there is no commitment in the Council to keep night trains. Scheuer's summit was basically him giving some publicity to ÖBB. DB and SNCF still want as little to do with night trains as possible.
DB's night trains were CityNightLine, not NightJet.

And the TRAN Committee does not administer a €40bn budget.
There are loads of things the EP could be doing on night trains - not least properly investigating the issues why no one other than ÖBB and RegioJet want to really run them, and checking track access problems. But the EP is not doing that - or not systematically.
Perhaps the aim was to profile Delli, which is fair enough, but in which case the title of the piece is rather wrong. The people in Europe saving night trains are ÖBB, Snälltaget, RegioJet, and Austria's environment minister Gewessler.

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