The Eurostar railway company, which operates trains of the same name through the Channel Tunnel, has announced that it will suspend direct services between London and Disneyland Paris next summer, citing the effects of the pandemic and Brexit.
Dans une declaration transmitted Mardi à l’AFP, l’entreprise dit avoir “pris la décision de ne plus assurer la liaison directe entre Londres et Marne-la-Vallée à l’été 2023”, mais aucune n’a decision n’a été prize pour Next year. “We will review our options for 2024 over the next year,” the rail company said.
Eurostar “continues to recover economically from the pandemic”, but is also preparing for a new computer system that will govern entry and exit from the Schengen area starting next year, the company explains in its statement.
Latest victim of Brexit
The departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union is effective from January 2021 and the British become considered nationals of a third State when entering the EU, although they are exempt from visas for stays of less than 90 days.
“We need to focus on our core routes to ensure we can continue to provide a high level of service and experience,” Eurostar added, arguing that passengers can still reach the famous theme park via its trains going to Paris or Lille from the British. capital.
The British newspaper The Independent was particularly moved on Monday by the disappearance of this popular line, considering it “the latest victim of Brexit” for travelers on the other side of the Channel.
Brexit, and in particular the extension of border controls, had also been implicated in July in the huge traffic jams that had disrupted the British holiday route to the continent, sometimes stalled for hours before being able to access the port of Dover. , one of the most important. the main crossing points.
Source: BFM TV
