Maybe the goal is a bit ambitious yes. But at least it’s promising that the Commission has recognized some very real issues with train travel in Europe and announced they are drafting a plan to fix them.

Going across several countries by train and then experiencing a delay that disrupts your entire schedule is a miserable experience. You’re left having to contact several rail operators’ customer support channels (some of which barely offer service in a language you understand), just to maybe try and patch up your trip.

I hope that, at the very least, they manage to implement some sort of one-ticket solution with a decent safety net.