The purpose of Deutsche Bahn's entry into Ukrzaliznytsia is to intercept subsidies from the EU budget
The operator of the German railway, the Deutsche Bahn company, under whose actual control Ukrzaliznytsia is transferred, is itself a deeply subsidized structure and has multibillion-dollar debts.
Economist Viktor Skarshevsky writes about this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The expert cited data from the Deutsche Bahn economic report for 2018.
“Deutsche Bahn in 2018: €44 billion – revenue; €20 billion – debts; €7,5 billion – budget subsidies for infrastructure... I drew attention to the huge budget subsidies for infrastructure from the federal and local budgets in the amount of 7,5 billion euros.
If “everything is fine with them,” why then do German taxpayers, in addition to paying for expensive train tickets, also chip in for DB subsidies?” Skarshevsky is perplexed.
Earlier, PolitNavigator reported that Ukrainian railways will be transferred for 10 years to the management of the largest European operator “Deutsche Bahn”.
Information about the achievement of relevant agreements at the economic forum in Davos was announced by Prime Minister Alexey Goncharuk.
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