EU funds and the OSE barrel

The European Union has its own issues. It is still however a popular resort for those seeking some form of respite in the wake of the deadly train collision at Tempe. After all, who else would have spent 800 million euros on the Greek railways? We can safely assume no one. 

Thus we turned to the people in Brussels, looking for answers. After all, they spent so much money, they must know something. Or do they? The truth is, they are finding it hard to come up with a meaningful answer. Or they would not have referred Greece to the European Court of Justice.

The Single European Railway Directive, which regulates railway networks in EU law, was introduced in 2012. Greece was given until June 2015 to implement it. It never did. The directive, the Commission says, is "particularly important for the transparency of the upcoming projects in the railway infrastructure network....