This promotes user fees for the long-distance rail network – which largely benefits the railway itself. With its ICE and Intercity trains, it masters long-distance traffic. The market shares of the competitor Flixtrain and the Austrian Federal Railways with their night trains are small.
Until now is only a small part of the direct and indirect aid totaling 3.77 billion euros was receivedapproved by the EU Commission. This emerges from Ferlemann’s answer to the FDP member of the Bundestag Torsten Herbst, which is available to the German Press Agency.