Television news footage showed bent tracks and piles of mud at the scene of the accident near the town of Riedlingen in southern Germany. Three people were killed and 41 injured.
Historically neutral, the country is set to double military spending, even in the midst of a budget crisis, as its neighbors also spend big to counter Russia.
Chancellor Christian Stocker of Austria in Vienna this month. The principle of neutrality, he said, “obligates us to national defense, comprehensive national defense in particular.”