The number of sleepers in central Europe (for me that's between France and Hungary) that do not run through Germany (and are not operated by CNL) has dropped dramatically lately. This month alone Switzerland-Rome, Vienna-Rome, Vienna-Amsterdam and Vienna-Strasbourg/Frankfurt (none of them CNL routes) will be discontinued, with only Vienna-Dortmund added. The French, Dutch and Belgians no longer have sleepers (except Spanish trains into and through France). The Italians seem bent on dropping all international sleeper connections. In eastern Europe things are holding up better, but even there sleepers are becoming rarer (Berlin-Krakow/Gdynia/Kaliningrad dropped on short notice recently - perhaps to be added to the Berlin-Kiev train). My point is that CNL is holding out better than other operators, but even CNL has recently dropped Dortmund-Milan, Hamburg-Zurich and Hamburg-Paris. Furthermore a couple of years ago CNL absorbed the sleeper routes of DB-Nachtzug and a few Euronight routes, which is what I was referring to when I said CNL has taken over a lot of central-European sleeper routes. True some of these routes have since been dropped, as I noted above, and many Euronight routes remain - some even running into Germany.