Strasbourg, 16/01/2003 (Agence Europe) - During a press conference in Strasbourg, several members of the EPP/ED Group drew attention to the poor state of progress made in the high speed rail link to connect Paris to Budapest (via Strasbourg, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Munich, Salzburg and Vienna) in the context of trans-European transport networks. Echoing the debate on the second rail package (see EUROPE of 15 January, p.11), German national Angelika Niebler regretted that rail connections are...