A prepare carrying European lawmakers made a shock detour, ending up at a station servicing a theme park in Paris
A French prepare that was chartered by the European Parliament to move MEPs and different officers on Monday, briefly ended up on the Disneyland Paris cease. Trains reserved solely for MEPs are usually contracted by the European Parliament to shuttle legislators between its cut up seat in Brussels, Belgium and Strasbourg in jap France.
The prepare, operated by French railway firm SNCF took an unscheduled flip, heading in direction of the French capital and ending up on the Marne-la-Vallee station, which companies Europe’s Disneyland theme park. The detour, apparently brought on by a track-switching error, resulted in a 45-minute delay.
The accident was extensively acknowledged by legislators and parliament officers on social media, with a few of them apparently having fun with the delay. Some expressed remorse they weren’t allowed off the prepare to roam the theme park, whereas others made tongue-in-cheek feedback concerning the blunder.
“We’re NOT a Mickey Mouse Parliament,” German lawmaker Daniel Freund wrote on social media platform X (previously Twitter).
The Disneyland debacle didn’t escape the European Parliament’s critics both, who didn’t miss the chance to poke enjoyable on the physique, suggesting the entire affair was an amazing metaphor completely reflecting the present state of the European legislature.
“The picture of the EU Parliament as a peripatetic circus getting extra actual by the hour,” stated Alberto Alemanno, a public-interest lawyer and activist behind The Good Foyer NGO, which advocates higher accountability for the physique.
