By the same token: a private company can also run a railway into the ground (and many have!) if they're being subsidized and aren't expected to ever turn a profit
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EU rules on public subsidies for operating companies don't hurt.
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do tell
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Basically, EU govts are not allowed to subsidize businesses they own in certain ways, and if they do offer subsidies, they have to …
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be made available to private intra-EU competitors on nondiscriminatory terms. Hence all EU member states separating ownership of …
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immovable railway assets (RoW and stations) from the train operation business.
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States allowed to subsidize rail transport in general, by building infrastructure, but transport _services_ must not lose money.
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In Finland, historically VR ("state railways") had a total monopoly. For EU, RoW moved to Liikennevirasto (Transport Dept) and
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VR converted into a state-owned corporation to run trains (still as a monopoly but that's changing).
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Having honest and smart bureaucrats is not possible everywhere. No way.
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