The railways have a long tradition in Europe and the impact that
they have on history is as much political as it is social or
economic. National governments have traditionally had an active
interest in the railways and indeed railways have become synonymous
with ideas of state building and intervention. Similarly, on the
supra-national level, the EU Commission sees the railways as
central to the EU Transport Policy, the Single Market and
Sustainable Development. It is perhaps strange then that the
creation of an EU Railway Policy has been slow in the making. This
book focuses on the role of the Commission in opening national
railway markets and creating an EU governance structure for the
railways. Indeed, the railway policy discussions and preferences
are shaped by the fundamental question of whether the railways are
a public service or an economic sector. The book argues that the
Commission is constrained by the member states' resistance towards
market opening as evident in the implementation process and
demonstrates that the Commission's long term commitment has been
able to advance its preferred governance system.
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