Following the ECF’s long-running campaign, which included sending letters to every MEP last week, we are pleased to announce that the TEN-T guidelines were approved by a large majority at this week’s Plenary session in Strasbourg meaning that...

Ádám Bodor, Director of EuroVelo, Cycling Tourism & Regional Policy at ECF, together with representatives of Hungarian cycling NGOs in Budapest last week. Over the summer months the ECF has been working with its member groups to develop...

Amendments to the guidelines for the development of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) will be voted on at next week’s plenary session. ECF and EuroVelo delivered 755 letters to the EU Parliament in a concerted effort to garner support for...

Photo by Flickr / Tulenheimo The European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) for 30km/h streets in cities and villages is coming to a close on November 13, 2013. It has garnered 44 000 signatures – not enough to pass the ECI but nevertheless sending a...

Cyclists without borders: Nadace Partnerství from the Czech Republic. Photo (c) Jitka Vrtalova In November, it's the Czech's turn in our Member of the Month series. Read on to learn about Nadace Partnerství's quest to get more Czech people...

Transport Day at this year’s UN climate conference COP19 in Warsaw, supported by ECF and organized by our partners SLoCaT, hopes to show the world's policy makers how important the transport sector is for climate change. A message to be underlined...

A recent report by the Commission looks at the possible effects of rolling out speed limiters or Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) on all commercial vehicles. An ISA system would be able to limit the speed taking into account the differing speed...

Improving cycling in Italy - one piazza at a time. Photo by imagina / flickr The proposal for a revised Highway Code in favor of cyclists in Italy is an example of the results that joint advocacy efforts can lead to. Here’s the story of how ECF...

Photo: Sport Year Foundation. Champion cyclist Kalju Koch, Secretary General of Estonian Cyclists’ Federation, Urmas Karlson and leader of Estonian Year of Sports and Physical Activity, Aivo Normak MOVE Week 2013 embraced hundreds of different...

Photo by Robert Kuykendall / Flickr Member states of the EU will have to have transposed the Cross Border Enforcement Directive into their national legisaltion today (7 November 2013). The proposal for a Directive on cross border enforcement in...

30K speed limits in cities: French-speakers in Belgium want more of them (photo © GRACQ) While the World you Like campaign is coming to a close with its award ceremony in Copenhagen, cycling advocacy organization GRACQ has published the findings...

© Bernardo Campos Pereira While neighbouring Spain reduces its bicycle safety discussion to helmet use and increases the speed limit to 130km/h on motorways, Portugal is engaging with bicycles in a completely different manner. With the new Road...