• acargitz
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    1 year ago

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

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        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! :)

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          i mean, there are passport checks before you enter the UK when you travel through the Eurotunnel so that might work alright when you create a special checkpoint in the Budapest, for example? But all in all I think that both Bulgaria and Romania are going to join sooner than later, right now it’s mostly just the case of western politicians gathering support from their right-wing base. And the HSR won’t be built overnight anyhow.

          I don’t know what to do about Hungary though, it’s sad how Orban holds back that beautiful country, and with how the fair election system, independent media and courts have been dismantled I don’t see how opposition can even win.