{"id":345620,"date":"2025-07-11T09:59:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/is-europe-going-off-the-rails\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T09:59:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:59:47","slug":"is-europe-going-off-the-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/is-europe-going-off-the-rails\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Europe going off the rails?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"main-text\">\n<p><iframe title=\"European railways I Standard Time talk show S02E22\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s-Jhe_0A2ZQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php\/Characteristics_of_the_railway_network_in_Europe\">Eurostat<\/a>, as of 2023, the European Union had more than 8,556 kilometers of dedicated high-speed rail lines. However, the overall size of the European railway network has contracted by 1.3% between 2013 and 2023. This is hardly the direction to meet the challenges of the climate crisis, especially when it comes to public transport connecting smaller settlements.<\/p>\n<p>UNIFE has identified three primary areas of development: the creation of a unified European Rail Traffic Management System, the implementation of a next-generation Future Railway Mobile Communications System, and the development of digital automatic coupling technology. These initiatives are undoubtedly ambitious and, if executed effectively, could transform rail transport across the continent \u2013 especially cross-border rail rides, which today are a vat of chaos.<\/p>\n<p>One thing is for sure: rails need development, but also maintenance, and in an age of financial restrictions, this keeps a lot of us awake at night.<\/p>\n<p>This episode was recorded in Novi Sad, Serbia, the location of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/serbias-present-future\/\">devastating railway disaster,<\/a> prompting the discussants to also examine the extent to which systemic corruption has contributed to the tragedy. A previous episode of Standard Time addressed the wave of protests that erupted on 1 November 2024:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Will autocracy break in Serbia? I Standard Time talk show S2E19\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Gb5FY0QAX4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Guests<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Bojan Pajti\u0107 <\/strong>served as the Prime Minister of Vojvodina for 12 years, making him the longest-serving prime minister in the history of the province. From 2014 to 2016, he also held the position of President of the Democratic Party, which at the time was the largest opposition party in the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1d\u00e1m Kov\u00e1cs<\/strong> is a Youtuber under the name <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCcvfHa-GHSOHFAjU0-Ie57A\">Adam Something<\/a>, with a current following of 1.3 million subscribers. He advocating for equality, human-centric urbanism, and practical, useful transit. And regularly rips Elon Musk a new one in his takedowns on the craze for electric cars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jon Worth <\/strong>is an independent campaigner and writer about European railways. Through his crowd funded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@JonWorth\">#CrossBorderRail<\/a> project he has been investigating international railway lines all over the continent, and putting proposals to the European Union to improve them.<\/p>\n<p>Europrospects correspondent for Serbia <strong>Maja Vujovi\u0107 <\/strong>is based in Novi Sad. With a background in linguistics and media, she focuses on human and animal rights, feminism, and EU policy.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creative team<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">R\u00e9ka Kinga Papp anchor<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daniela Univazo writer-editor<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Merve Akyel\u00a0 art director, Eurozine<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Szilvia Pint\u00e9r producer<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Julia Sobota captions and translations<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zs\u00f3fia Gabriella Papp digital producer<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Management<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Judit Csik\u00f3s\u00a0 head of finance<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Priyanka Hutschenreiter\u00a0 project manager<br \/>Csilla Nagyn\u00e9 Kardos office administration<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maximilian Lehner managing director<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Video Crew<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gergely \u00c1ron P\u00e1pai DoP<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">D\u00e1niel Pitz camera<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Istv\u00e1n Nagy sound<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Postproduction<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">N\u00f3ra Ruszkai video editor<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Istv\u00e1n Nagy lead video editor<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mil\u00e1n Golovics dialogue editor<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">D\u00e1niel Nagy dialogue editor<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Art<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Victor Maria Lima animation<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crypt-of-Insomnia theme music<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Disclosure<\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"main-text\" class=\"md-h5 copy lh5 serif color-black-80\">\n<p>This talk show is a Display Europe production: a ground-breaking media platform anchored in public values.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31201 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/displaylogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"205\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This programme is co-funded by the European Commission and the European Cultural Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, the views and opinions expressed here are those of the authors and speakers only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the EACEA can be held responsible for them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30258 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/eu_Ecf_logos-300x74.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/eu_Ecf_logos-300x74.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/eu_Ecf_logos.jpg 437w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"74\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/europes-railways\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=europes-railways\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] According to Eurostat, as of 2023, the European Union had more than 8,556 kilometers of dedicated high-speed rail lines. 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