Our governments (Italy) just build infrastructure in the north, then do a pikachu face when there aren't big companies anywhere else.

I'd say that's just like the UK except the infrastructure is all in the south, but the UK government is currently in denial about any of their own actions having gone wrong at all at any point, so no Pikachu face.

In Greece the railway might be minimal but at the same time it is very deadly.

Context: a train crash last week killing 57 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempi_train_crash