France and Germany will offer 60,000 passes to young people between the ages of 18 and 27 so that they can travel freely on the rail network of the neighboring country, with an offer of seven days of travel, in a period of one month.
The platform for issuing these passes should open Monday morning at 10 am on the passefrancegermany.fr site according to the “first come, first served” principle, said Renaud Delpech, adviser for Europe to the Delegate Minister for Transport. Clément Beaune, during a presentation. of the project to journalists.
Half of the 60,000 passes are intended for French youth and residents and the other half for German youth. This pass “will allow a Frenchman in Germany and a German in France to travel from July 1 to December 31 and have unlimited access to the rail network,” said Renaud Delpech.
This offer applies to all lines, both regional and high-speed, and is valid for one month from the first trip made. It then allows seven days of unlimited travel.
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On the French side, half of the 30,000 passes will be distributed in priority to “scholarship students, young apprentices or young people in integration (…) the idea is that young people further away from Germany have access to this free and unlimited pass,” he explained. Renaud Delpech.
On the trainee side, “the goal is to organize the distribution of these tickets to trainees who deserve it or who have won within their own organizations competitions of excellence”, explained Axel Cournede, Carole Grandjean’s training and learning advisor, the Minister in charge of Education. and Vocational Training.
For example, around 100 tickets will be reserved for the winners of the best apprenticeship competition and several thousand are destined for the network of apprenticeship training centers (CFA).
This initiative, financed by the German government, the French state, Deutsche Bahn and the SNCF, was decided during the Franco-German council of ministers last January on the occasion of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Élysée treaty.
The operation “happens only by train, which makes it a very ecological initiative and in tune with the demands of young people”, stressed Renaud Delpech.
Source: BFM TV
