Tbh there should be a network of maglev trains going through Europe, kinda similar to what this think tank has in mind. Will probably not happen in the next 200 years but that would really kill most flying inside Europe. You could go from Brussels to Paris in under an hour. Hell, you could do a daytrip from Paris to Barcelona by train if you wanted to. Berlin to Paris would be like 2-3 hours. Even Berlin to Rome could be done in like 4 hours. You could live in Warsaw or Prague and commute to Berlin for work. You wouldn’t have to fly from London to Frankfurt or Vienna to Belgrade.
It’s ridiculously expensive so I guess we would never ever do it but I genuinely believe that if we would focus on that and introducing English as the official administration language that everyone learns from kindergarten on we’d probably be the most attractive place in the world for high skilled people to move to. It’s a shame we focus on going full nazi and blaming all our problems on refugees instead of having a vision for the future.
Tbh there should be a network of maglev trains going through Europe, kinda similar to what this think tank has in mind. Will probably not happen in the next 200 years but that would really kill most flying inside Europe. You could go from Brussels to Paris in under an hour. Hell, you could do a daytrip from Paris to Barcelona by train if you wanted to. Berlin to Paris would be like 2-3 hours. Even Berlin to Rome could be done in like 4 hours. You could live in Warsaw or Prague and commute to Berlin for work. You wouldn’t have to fly from London to Frankfurt or Vienna to Belgrade.
It’s ridiculously expensive so I guess we would never ever do it but I genuinely believe that if we would focus on that and introducing English as the official administration language that everyone learns from kindergarten on we’d probably be the most attractive place in the world for high skilled people to move to. It’s a shame we focus on going full nazi and blaming all our problems on refugees instead of having a vision for the future.