On 14 July, the European Commission published its immense “Fit for 55” package with several new legislative proposals destined to help achieve the political tar...The transport and building sectors are both crucial for the EU’s 2030 goal of cutting emissions by 55%. A new ECF position paper outlines how to include bicycle parking a...
The Pan-European Master Plan for Cycling Promotion was adopted on 18 May 2021 at the 5th High-level meeting on Transport, Health and Environment. As part of the...The new pan-European cycling master plan includes ECF recommendations on cycling infrastructure, funding and tourism and covers 54 countries across Europe and North Ameri...
New analysis by the European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF) of Member States’ National Recovery and Resilience Plans submitted to the EU show that only six are prop...Over half of European Union Member States are neglecting cycling in their post-pandemic recovery plans, missing out on billions of euros in economic and health benefits.
The German federal government will be investing 900 million Euro in cycling as part of its national climate protection programme. The largest part will be funde...
Member States have begun to take the decarbonization potential of cycling more seriously, but there is still a long way to go in recognising cycling as a fully-...
After more than 4 days of negotiations, 27 heads of government struck a deal and agreed on the EU budget totalling 1.82 trillion Euro. The deal includes th...
Allocating 10 % of the transport capital budget to cycling has been a long-standing demand of the European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF). But so far, to our knowle...
When it comes to cycle development, the federal level in Austria is shifting up two gears. On World Bicycle Day, June 3, the new Austrian Federal Minister for C...
The EU will become the first to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, the European Commission proposed last Wednesday in its landmark Communication on a Euro...
The new Finnish centre-left government set its ambitions high when it took office in June 2019: by 2035, the Nordic country should achieve zero-carbon emissions...
To address climate disruption, the Dutch government presented its Climate Agreement on 28 June 28th, 2019. The whole of Western Europe was hit by a scorching he...
The European Commission has published in June 2019 the second part of its Guidance Note on the implementation of the revised Energy Performance of Buildings (EP...