PRAGUE, 15/07/2016 – More than thirteen hundred cyclists voted in historically first Czech Cycle Barometer of cities and towns. The thirty questions contained in the first National Cycle Barometer regarded evaluating the country’s cycling...

The city of Dublin is planning to make one of the main hubs in the inner city car, busses and taxis free. College Green, now hardly recognizable as a square, will be given back to the Dubliners, together with some surrounding streets. It will become...

BRUSSELS, 14/07/2016 - This month the Slovaks took up the EU rotating presidency, with a number of events. The full program is here.  ECF will attend the conference on Education in and through Sport which the Slovak government is...

Brussels 13/07/2016 – We need more and better targeted funding if we want Europe to remain world’s top tourism destination: this was the main message delivered by the European Cyclists’ Federation during a debate of high-level tourism stakeholders...

From 8 to 10 June, environment ministers and state secretaries from the pan-European region, including Russia and Central Asia, met in Batumi, Georgia, to discuss the way forward to a greener economy. At this occasion, THE PEP (the Transport, Health...

Brussels, 05/07/2016. By including support for a sustainable travel hierarchy and a doubling of cycling across the EU-28 over the next 10 years, the Committee of the Regions (CoR) own-initiative report on a ‘EU Roadmap for Cycling’ took a big...

After long negotiations, the European Union has finally decided on an update of the National Emission Ceilings Directive (NEC Directive) to improve air quality in Europe. The NEC Directive sets new limits on air pollution from transport,...

A bold initiative by a group of activists, scientists and urban planners set an example of a new and effective type of cycling advocacy. If it is true that “Our struggle for global sustainability will be won or lost in cities”, as UN Secretary...

ECF has started work to put cycling into a number of platforms and initiatives that will be needed for Smarter Cycling to become a reality. This is the beginning of a process that will open up to the members of the Cycling Industry Club and the...

Urban population keeps growing larger and larger, and climatic issues are finally being addressed: a new kind of mobility is needed. We have to find a way to move and commute reducing traffic jams and accidents without polluting...

A Smart government listens to its population and welcomes innovative, useful ideas. At least, this is what happened with See.Sense, a member of ECF’s Cycling Industry Club: after winning a national prize and showcasing the potential...

Italy has one of the highest motorization rate in the world and probably because of this reason it currently hosts one of the strongest and more compact bike activist scene. In the last few months urban cyclists painted overnight the 30 km/h limit...