{"id":84526,"date":"2026-05-28T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/european-parliament-jokes-malta-has-zero-train-delays-in-facebook-poll\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:28:00","slug":"european-parliament-jokes-malta-has-zero-train-delays-in-facebook-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/european-parliament-jokes-malta-has-zero-train-delays-in-facebook-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"European Parliament jokes Malta has \u2018zero train delays\u2019 in Facebook poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European Parliament jokes Malta has \u2018zero train delays\u2019 in Facebook poll<\/p>\n<p>The European Parliament has sparked amusement online after posting a light-hearted Facebook poll asking users which EU country has &#8220;zero train delays,&#8221; to which the answer was Malta.<\/p>\n<p>The post offered four options: Germany, Malta, Sweden, and Latvia.<\/p>\n<p>In a follow-up comment, the EP revealed the answer with a joke aimed at Malta&#8217;s lack of a railway system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And the answer is&#8230; Malta!&#8221; the comment read. &#8220;There are no railway lines at all in this sunny island in the Mediterranean!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The comment then shifted to a more serious message about the EU&#8217;s efforts to improve rail transport across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But for the rest of the EU, Parliament has given the go-ahead on rules to increase railway reliability and avoid delays as we take train journeys across Europe,&#8221; the comment read.<\/p>\n<p>The post linked to a European Parliament page outlining newly approved EU railway rules designed to improve cross-border rail coordination and reduce delays.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RSS Feed Source: Independent Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2026-05-28\/local-news\/European-Parliament-jokes-Malta-has-zero-train-delays-in-Facebook-poll-6736290089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Parliament jokes Malta has \u2018zero train delays\u2019 in Facebook poll<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Parliament jokes Malta has \u2018zero train delays\u2019 in Facebook poll The European Parliament has sparked amusement online after posting a light-hearted Facebook poll asking users which EU country has &#8220;zero train delays,&#8221; to which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[1850],"class_list":["post-84526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-abatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}