If you are from the EU: Sign it it’s free. If it gets enough signatures the organizers get to meet with European Commission representatives and a public hearing in parliament. Credit to Adam Something on YouTube for posting about this.

  • geissi@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    most people in these countries still live in the capitols

    Well for Berlin, the City proper has a population of 3.6 million (~ 4.2% of Germans) and the larger metropolitan area has about 6.1 m (~ 7.2%).

    Contrast that to the Ruhr area that has a metropolitan area with 10.6m population (~ 12%).
    Also outside those areas, western Germany is more densely populated that the east around Berlin.

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      1 year ago

      While I don’t necessarily agree with this ECI, keep in mind that Germany’s decentralisation is the exception in Europe, rather than the norm. In most other countries the population is concentrated in a few cities only.

      Of course, why would you want to incentivize and reward that centralisation by making the capitals even more appealing by focusing HSR expansion there? That’s another question.