荷兰与德国签署铁路合作宣言：Amsterdam至Berlin增开列车、缩短车程
荷兰与德国11月10日在柏林签署共同宣言，加强两国铁路合作：荷兰基础设施与水管理国务秘书 Annet Bertram 与德国交通部长 Steffen Bilger 代表双方签字，两国要让跨境客运列车开得更多、车程逐步缩短，货运和军事机动运输一并加强。
宣言点名三条客运走廊：Amsterdam 至 Hamburg（向后接 Copenhagen）、Amsterdam 至 Berlin（向后接 Warsaw 与 Prague）、Amsterdam 至 Frankfurt（向后接 Basel 与 Vienna）。荷兰政府指出，目前每天开往 Paris 的高速列车数量大约是开往 Berlin 的两倍，两国希望降低新运营商进入国际铁路市场的门槛，引入更多竞争。
货运方面，每年约有45,000列货运列车经 Zevenaar、Venlo 与 Bad Bentheim 过境荷德边界，是欧洲最繁忙的铁路货运过境点之一。两国将共同推进四个路段，包括扩容连接 Betuweroute 的 Emmerich 至 Oberhausen 线，以及 Venlo 至 Kaldenkirchen 至 Viersen、Bad Bentheim 与 Oldenzaal 过境点、Bremen 至 Oldenburg 至 Groningen 至 Amsterdam 等线路；双方还将合作推进欧洲列车控制系统 ERTMS，并让740米超长列车更容易通行，这类列车常用于运送坦克等军事装备。两国部长今后每年与铁路基础设施管理方 ProRail、DB InfraGO 共同开会，工作组负责把宣言落到具体项目。今年内，Groningen 至 Leer 的 Wunderline 已重新通车，Coevorden 至 Bad Bentheim 的跨境列车12月开通。
另一条线是托育改革。荷兰政府的托育融资法案提出，自2029年起取消现行托育津贴，改为把补贴直接发给托育机构与托育中介，在职父母只需付一小笔自付额；补贴比例逐步提高，到2029年所有在职父母都可按最高小时价的95.6%获得补贴，新制度每年投入约90亿欧元。过渡期里，2027年再拨3.22亿欧元提高补贴比例，当年最高小时价为日托11.60欧元、课后托育10.31欧元、家庭托育8.77欧元。
（来源：荷兰政府）
Netherlands and Germany Sign Rail Declaration: More Trains and Shorter Journeys Between Amsterdam and Berlin
The Netherlands and Germany signed a joint declaration in Berlin on November 10 to intensify rail cooperation. Dutch State Secretary for Infrastructure and Water Management Annet Bertram and German Transport Minister Steffen Bilger signed the document, under which the two countries will strengthen cross-border passenger and freight transport, including military mobility, with more trains running between them and journey times, including to Berlin, to be cut in stages.
The declaration focuses on three passenger corridors: Amsterdam to Hamburg, with onward connections to Copenhagen; Amsterdam to Berlin, with onward connections to Warsaw and Prague; and Amsterdam to Frankfurt, with onward connections to Basel and Vienna. The Dutch government noted that roughly twice as many high-speed trains currently run to Paris each day as to Berlin, and the two countries want to make it easier for new operators to enter the international rail market, increasing competition in both passenger and freight services.
On freight, about 45,000 freight trains cross the Dutch-German border each year at Zevenaar, Venlo and Bad Bentheim, making it one of Europe's busiest rail freight crossings. The two countries will jointly take up four routes, including expanding capacity on the Emmerich to Oberhausen line that connects to the Betuweroute, as well as Venlo to Kaldenkirchen to Viersen, the Bad Bentheim and Oldenzaal crossing, and Bremen to Oldenburg to Groningen to Amsterdam. They will also cooperate on the European train control system ERTMS and make it easier to run extra-long 740-metre trains, which are often needed to move equipment such as tanks. Ministers from both countries will meet annually with infrastructure managers ProRail and DB InfraGO, with working groups turning the declaration into concrete projects. This year, the Wunderline between Groningen and Leer has already reopened, and cross-border trains between Coevorden and Bad Bentheim are due to start in December.
In a second domestic track, the Dutch government's childcare financing bill proposes replacing the current childcare benefit from 2029 with a subsidy paid directly to childcare providers and childminder agencies, leaving working parents with only a limited contribution of their own. The reimbursement rises in steps until, in 2029, all working parents are entitled to 95.6 percent of the maximum hourly rate, with the government investing about 9 billion euros a year in the new system. During the transition, an extra 322 million euros will raise reimbursement rates in 2027, when the maximum hourly rates will be 11.60 euros for day care, 10.31 euros for after-school care and 8.77 euros for childminder care.
(Source: Government of the Netherlands)
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图片来源：图：一列由 NS 1752 机车牵引的 Berlin Ostbahnhof 至 Amsterdam Centraal 国际城际列车行驶在荷兰 Hengelo 附近，正是荷德宣言点名的 Amsterdam 至 Berlin 走廊列车。照片：Jan Derk Remmers，CC BY-SA，经维基共享资源。 / Photo: An international Intercity train from Berlin Ostbahnhof to Amsterdam Centraal, hauled by NS locomotive 1752 near Hengelo in the Netherlands, on the Amsterdam-Berlin corridor named in the Dutch-German declaration. Photo by Jan Derk Remmers, CC BY-SA, via Wikimedia Commons.
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