• acargitzEnglish
    0•1 year ago

    Neither are the southeast Balkan countries (GR, BG, RO), or the Mediterannean island ones (MT, CY).

    • ZeeroothEnglish
      0•1 year ago

      Running a line through Hungary-Romania-Bulgaria-Greece should relatively be much easier though

      • acargitzEnglish
        0•1 year ago

        In theory yes, but:

        • Greece is not ready to handle HSR.
        • Bulgarian and Romanian accession to Schengen is still contentious, so what’s the point of HSR if you have to stop for passport checks?
        • Nobody is going to give Orban’s Hungary big infrastructure bucks.

        EU politics is so much fun! :)