{"id":32664,"date":"2019-02-20T19:22:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T19:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32664"},"modified":"2019-02-20T19:22:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T19:22:51","slug":"france-italy-railway-construction-exposes-political-rifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32664","title":{"rendered":"France-Italy railway construction exposes political rifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"77.4787878788\">\n<p>Costing nearly $10 million, it will be one of Europe&#8217;s most expensive train lines once finished and Brussels considers the transport corridor between Lyon in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/france.html\">France<\/a> and Turin in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/italy.html\">Italy<\/a> important for Europe.<\/p>\n<p>But leaders in Italy&#8217;s Five Star Movement, evoking the &#8220;yellow vest&#8221; protesters besieging French President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/emmanuel-macron.html\">Emmanuel Macron<\/a>, have called it a waste of money and have said it is not what ordinary citizens need.<\/p>\n<p>Macron, for his part, called new populist parties, of which the Five Star Movement is one, a form of political leprosy.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of locals in Italy are determined to see the project abandoned and diplomatic relations between the two countries have continued to unravel; although machines continue to work on the trans-Alpine railway, they may be digging a tunnel to nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s David Chater reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Costing nearly $10 million, it will be one of Europe&#8217;s most expensive train lines once finished and Brussels considers the transport corridor between Lyon in France and Turin in Italy important for Europe. But leaders in Italy&#8217;s Five Star Movement, evoking the &#8220;yellow vest&#8221; protesters besieging French President Emmanuel Macron, have called it a waste&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}