Bureaucrats in the European Commission sometimes resemble overgrown schoolboys playing with train sets, endlessly fiddling with layouts to make things run just a bit better-or not. It is the same with real trains. Next month the Commission brings out its "Fourth Railway Package", to make it easier for private operators to compete with state rail giants. The Eurocrats have huffed and puffed about this for years, without getting far down the line. Once again they face opposition from some national governments: France and Germany, in particular, are lobbying against the proposed liberalisation.
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