{"id":471138,"date":"2025-10-03T13:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T13:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/471138\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T13:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T13:06:11","slug":"ukraines-first-eu-gauge-railway-a-real-window-to-europe-or-a-strategic-dead-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/471138\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s first EU-gauge railway: a real \u2018window to Europe\u2019 or a \u2018strategic dead end\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Earlier this month, Ukraine opened its first European-gauge railway, hailed by Kyiv and Brussels as a \u2018window to Europe\u2019 and a leap in EU integration. But Ukrainian rail expert Boris Ganaylyuk warns the line running near Hungary and Slovakia risks being a \u2018strategic dead end,\u2019 doing more to complicate logistics unless its symbolism is matched by real network integration.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tSubscribe to gain access to all news<\/p>\n<p>Already have a subscription? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railtech.com\/login\/?redirect_to=%2Fall%2F2025%2F10%2F03%2Fukraines-first-eu-gauge-railway-a-real-window-to-europe-or-a-strategic-dead-end%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Log in<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tChoose your subscription<\/p>\n<p>Or<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tWant to read this article for free?<\/p>\n<p>You can read <strong>one free article per month<\/strong>. Enter your email and we&#8217;ll send you a free link to access the full article. No payment required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this month, Ukraine opened its first European-gauge railway, hailed by Kyiv and Brussels as a \u2018window to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[156902,141908,2000,299,156903,1699,156904,156905,156906,657,141915,141916],"class_list":{"0":"post-471138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-boris-ganaylyuk","9":"tag-chop","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european-standard-gauge","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-hungarian-border","15":"tag-slovakian-border","16":"tag-ten-t","17":"tag-ukraine","18":"tag-ukrzaliznytsia","19":"tag-uzhhorod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115310387987577418","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}