But oh what emotions I witnessed when I reported on them in my group today, which is a good thing because a hugely important question is in fact at stake here: the question of how to ensure that the European railways gain in weight again in the future, not in the material sense, but as far as their importance is concerned, because what many people forget when they are busy opposing reforms is that, with the state the railways have got into, they are carrying less and less.
Men efter at jeg har redegjort for dem i min gruppe i dag, har jeg set, hvilke følelser der kan opstå her. Men det er jo også godt, for i virkeligheden drejer det sig om et meget stort anliggende, nemlig om hvordan jernbanen i Europa fremover igen kan få større vægt, ikke rent materielt, men få større betydning, for det, som mange glemmer, når de går imod reformer, er, at med den tilstand, som jernbanerne befinder sig i i dag og har befundet sig i de seneste år, transporteres der stadigt mindre.