I still see a lot of yellow and dashed yellow lines on the map. When those lines turn orange, then I'll believe the Europeans are "railroading."
Just makes me wonder what you think is going on now then? A lot of those lines are just theoretical at the moment, and in the case of the extra Paris Lyon line thats the first I have heard about it, although the existing LGV to Lyon is probably not far off capacity at the moment.
It's called 'planning' and in the case of railway projects it is always a good idea.
The headline is in the present tense, not the future. When significant high-speed international connections exist between Spain, France, and Italy, not just from France into Benelux and parts of Germany, will the assertion that high-speed rail is expanding across Europe be true. Although such connections are on the drawing board, they won't be in existence for years to come, at least in some if not most cases.