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Definitely good news to hear. Over the last couple of years, I've made several long journeys by train that normally would have been by plane.
One rule of thumb I've been using is to only get direct trains. I find travel a bit stressful in any case and I don't want to be worrying about any delay with the first train causing me to miss the second. If the two trains are the same operator, you would at least be able to reschedule onto a later train - as long as there is one with free space which isn't guaranteed at zero notice. If the trains are run by different operators then it's presumably down to whatever agreements exist between them. So I skip all that uncertainty by only doing it when there's a single direct train available. Hopefully the EU will come up with a good solution for this as well.
err you seem to have forgotten to mention the other countries that are *not* widely regarded as being run by fascists...