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15 Feb, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Is there a list of *all* the infra projects needed to make #Deutschlandtakt by 2030 a reality? I am struggling a bit... Do you know @Koelschlenny @elba013 @vorortanleiter @Schienenallianz @bladewing678 ?
There's a huge list here:
deutschlandtakt.de/news-und-downl…

But these are surely not all *necessary* (although they're all being planned)
This explains why new infra is needed, but doesn't say *what* exactly
allianz-pro-schiene.de/themen/infrast…

Bundesverkehrswegeplan 2030 has a load more projects, but again no clarity
bvwp-projekte.de/map_railroad_2…
Wikipedia on Deutschlandtakt adds:
- Neubaustrecke Bielefeld–Hannover
- Neubaustrecke Nürnberg–Würzburg
- Überwerfungsbauwerke in Erfurt
but also provides no concrete list...
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschla…
The main site about Deutschlandtakt *also* has no list - the best is in this interview:
deutschlandtakt.de/blog/engelbach…
As ever the communication is really problematic - this is a *massive* project. It's possible there are some infra projects that ought to be prioritised as a result of it, and others ranked lower priority, but *how do we know*?

And if I can't work it out... how many people can?

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15 Feb
As arguments about the interplay between the NI Protocol and TCA rumble on, it's time for a kind of typology of solutions

These are:
1️⃣ Turn-a-blind-eye
2️⃣ All-UK
3️⃣ Build-the-infrastructure

A quick 🧵
1️⃣ Turn-a-blind-eye

Example:
"Gove asks EU for extension of NI Protocol grace periods to 2023"
uk.news.yahoo.com/gove-asks-eu-e…

Basically everything agreed is too hard to do, grace periods to be extended long beyond April

Leads to legal uncertainty
Typical quote:
Michael Gove "It does not threaten the integrity of the EU single market to have bulbs ordered from a wholesaler in Scotland or England which will then be planted in a garden in Belfast or Ballymena."
Read 11 tweets
12 Feb
This tweet about night trains in 🇫🇷 gained quite some traction this morning

And sure, night trains are *good*

But we need to be a little more clear headed than that

A 🧵

First of all, night trains only really make sense for routes that most people would not try to accomplish in the daytime by 🚅

Paris-Brive, Paris-Clermont F, Lyon-Toulouse are all under 5 hours by daytime train. These will not work as night train connections
Second, that you *could* theoretically run a train at night does not necessarily mean you should

Paris-Albi for example is 7 hours daytime train, because the infra is lousy. And you can drive it faster
Read 12 tweets
11 Feb
First they came for the 🐟

And John Redwood said the 🇬🇧 fishing industry would adjust
Then they came for the 🐖 farmers and 🐷 exports

And they said don't worry, it's just teething problems
Next they came for the 🦪 exporters

And there the Minister wrote a letter saying 🇪🇺 was wrong, when his officials knew 🇪🇺 was right
Read 13 tweets
8 Feb
I've been pointed towards this by @hanskundnani by @MaryFitzger - entitled "What does it mean to be “pro-European” today?" While there is something to it, I think it mixes up different terms, and hence it's not quite right... This 🧵 will explain

newstatesman.com/world/2021/02/…

1/13
I am also of course aware the title might not be Hans's choice...

The first issue is a basic one: to be a European, or to be a pro-European, are not - in my view - the same things

2/13
I will happily call myself a European, but not a pro-European (although plenty would describe *me* as the latter), because pro-European leads us to looking at the European Union in terms of more or less of it, rather than the individual policy outcomes it can produce

3/13
Read 13 tweets
6 Feb
A short 🧵 about Ursula von der Leyen - not least in response to critique of me labelling her a "second rate" politician earlier

"Second rate" is not quite right. Perhaps "politician with an unusual combination of strengths and weaknesses" is better.

1/10
The central issue is where and when vdL is a classic insider, and where she is an outsider

vdL is daughter of Ernst Albrecht, previously CDU Ministerpräsident in Lower Saxony - so in and of the party en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Alb…

2/10
Yet other aspects set her apart. She is a women in a male dominated party (Merkel of course being the other major exception), and a protestant in a party dominated by catholics. And she's a medical doctor in a political system dominated by lawyers.

3/10
Read 10 tweets
4 Feb
The replies to this tweet about import controls on goods coming into UK from EU from 1 July are really interesting

Here, once again, we're in a denial of reality phase of Brexit

And once again how to break that cycle is hard to see

🧵 1/10

🇪🇺 sees the reality of how checks are going to have to work - for both sides - and sees any slippage of timetables as a problem. If 🇬🇧 cannot meet the 1 July deadline - just like any Brexit deadline - the question is *WHEN* it can, not *IF* it can or will

2/10
🇬🇧 sees it differently. Complying is costly and onerous, requires IT systems, sites for checks, and training of staff - so it pays lip service to complying, but keeps it vague as to how and when it will comply - the Government does not actually *DO* the necessary

3/10
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