• acargitzEnglish
    2•1 year ago

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

    • ZeeroothEnglish
      1•1 year ago

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

      • acargitzEnglish
        2•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! :)

        • ZeeroothEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          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.