FRANCE AND GERMANY BOTHLY DREAM WITH THE EUROPEAN HIGH SPEED
ALVARO GRAIÑO DIAZ
The following generation of high speed trains could have a common denominator: to be European. At least it will be like this, if the project which has just been shown by the French and German railways' presidents begins to be a truth.
Alstom company has exported yet its high speed tecnology to Spain.
The high speed eurotrain can be a truth in a no-far future if the negotiations which has just started between the two most important enterprises in the European railway: the SNCF (Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer -the French railway-) and the Deutsche Bahn (the German railways) come through safely.
Economic reasons
Because of what might happen, the letter of interests tries to subsist on economic reasons which aren't free of political objectivity. Louis Gallois, old militant of the high speed, thinks that this mean of transport must be understood under parameters completly pro-European because, in his opinion the Old Continent is, because of its sizes, the best place in the world to use the lastest generation train's features. Moreover, as he has said recently, "we can't use materials only reserved to the national markets if we want to develope the high speed in Europe".
In the other side, Mehdorn supports that the development in common of this new train on the part of the two companies "would allow to reduce considerablely the price of this kind of material". And, by the way, both of them have just conveyed their wish of requesting to the industrialists since next Summer "an interesting offer". If all goes on agreed with those wishes, we will say that the Europe without frontiers will be a high speed Europe. At least, it will be like that to France and Germany.
Siemens wants to be one of the most important enterprises in the project called eurotrain.
