A passenger train that was traveling between Brussels and Strasbourg (France) to take MEPs and officials to the plenary session of the European Parliament ended up mistakenly at the Disneyland theme park station in Paris this Monday, with a delay of 46 minutes and many jokes from travelers on social networks.
The driver made a mistake after leaving Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris and took the track that led to the Marne-la-Vallée Chessy station, located next to the well-known playground, confirmed the SNCF, the company that manages the French railway system. .
One of the parliamentary workers who was on the train explained to EFE that, approximately ten minutes after leaving the airport, the driver informed them over the public address system that he had taken the wrong route and that he had to correct the route, which he did in the station at the gates of Disneyland.
In total, he estimated, they were stopped for about 20 minutes and the arrival in Strasbourg was 46 minutes after the initially scheduled time.
"Team Disneyland," wrote Dutch liberal MEP Samira Rafaela on X (formerly Twitter), sharing a photo from the cafeteria car with her socialist compatriot Mohammed Chahim.
The trip was part of the monthly trip that MEPs and their teams make from Brussels, where practically all committee and day-to-day work is carried out, to Strasbourg, where plenary sessions are held for four days each month.
Although this duplication of parliamentary venues has been criticized for being impractical and for the carbon footprint it leaves, the holding of twelve plenary sessions a year in the French city is guaranteed by European treaties and Paris defends it staunchly.
Furthermore, it just so happens that in 2023 it celebrates 100 years. A peculiar way to celebrate its centenary.
