Germanwatch together with the Civil Affairs Institute, ProRail, France Nature Environment, eco-union, Ecodes and Transport&Environment has published a new paper on the challenges of the… Read More »How the 2021 European Year of Rail can support the European Green Deal
After request from the EU-Parliament in 2020 DG MOVE announced for consultancies, to make the actual work. Main contractor is Steer Davies and Gleeve Ltd… Read More »EU Report 2021 about night trains
Press release from Back-on-Track, European network to promote cross-border and night trains The todays press conference on enhanced cooperation between DB (Germany), ÖBB (Austria), SBB… Read More »Night trains: Much more, much wider
There is an extremely interesting new poll by the “EUPinions” Institute (which seems rather neo-liberal, certainly no eco-leftist propaganda…) on the ideas of Europeans on… Read More »Almost two thirds (!) support a ban of short haul flights
Minutes of the Webinar with DG MOVE on 2020-10-16
How the German Minister of Transport reinvents the sleeping car and the trans-European railway This is a translation of the original interview in NachDenkSeiten, and… Read More »Made by Andi!? TEE 2.0
German federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer invited the fellow EU Transport Ministers to a special meeting Monday, September 21. The meeting continued the train positive… Read More »EU transport ministers meet to discuss improvements on trains
“Exit at the last second” Climate activists protest against short-haul flights Airplanes were unable to take off at several airports on Monday – climate activists… Read More »Action against short-haul flights – at four German airports
The following article by Bernhard Knierim appeared in the German weekly “Der Freitag” issue 31/2020. It has been translated by Trevor Garrod. Future mobility based… Read More »FLYING SHAME? WE NEED TRAIN PRIDE!
During his speech for the French national day, on July 14th, president Emmanuel Macron announced his priorities for the coming years. Among them, a “massive… Read More »The renaissance of night trains in France is on its way!