by Barbara Stoll and Zoltán Massay-KosubekIn April this year, as countries went into lockdown, many got to see and experience a rare occurrence: clear blue skies. In many European cities, the lockdown allowed city dwellers to see, smell and feel much cleaner air. In Paris, the air was cleaner than any time during the past [...]

Exactly five years after the Dieselgate scandal broke, the European Parliament is set to vote on a file that, at first glance, may look purely technical, but will in fact determine how much toxic air from exhaust pipes we’ll be breathing in the years to come. MEPs now have a second opportunity after 2016 to [...]

At the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak, it was difficult to imagine how rapidly the virus would impact our daily lives, and the aviation sector in particular. While we grappled with Zoom calls, and while governments rushed to flatten the curve, the aviation sector was knocking on doors asking for more special treatment - on [...]

There’s no denying the EU’s budget deal is a historic achievement. For the first time the European Union will embark on a large-scale borrowing programme with the specific purpose of redistributing those funds to parts of the Union that are facing tough times. Eurobonds have been talked about for as long as the Union exists, [...]

This summer will be a special one for Europeans. For the lucky ones who will be able to leave on holidays, two important questions will be how far to go and what means of transport to take around Europe with the COVID threat. But if the crisis makes us think differently about the way we [...]

Stef Cornelis, Direktor Deutschland, Transport & EnvironmentIn den kommenden Monaten wird die politische Debatte in Brüssel und den europäischen Hauptstädten vom Europäischen Wiederaufbaufonds dominiert werden, einem historischen europäischen Konjunkturprogramm in Höhe von 750 Milliarden Euro, das den EU-Ländern helfen soll, sich von den Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie zu erholen. Related Environmental IssueClimate Change and EnergyRelated Transport [...]

During the next months, the political debate in Brussels and other capitals, will be dominated by the European Recovery Fund, a historic European financing programme totalling €750 billion to help European countries to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. Related Environmental IssueClimate Change and EnergyRelated Transport ModeFreightLorriesRelated Policy AreaTransport policy Source: transebvnews

It is said that crises are great accelerators. And that is certainly the impression when you look at Europe’s urban landscape. In this Bulletin we have dispatches from France, Germany, the UK, Spain, Italy, Poland and Portugal. My native Brussels, where the government created 40km of new cycle paths and transformed the city centre into [...]

This op-ed was first published in English by EurActiv, in Spanish by El Pais, in Portugese by Publico and in French by Le Soir and La Tribune.As authorities across Europe are preparing for a stepwise lift of the lockdown imposed in response to the pandemic, they’re facing a make-or-break moment for urban mobility. The decisions [...]

Almost two months after most Europeans went into confinement and the economy came to a halt, life is slowly returning to normal. Our heart goes out to all those who have lost loved ones. But alongside the health crisis, another gloom is entering our lives, the economic recession. Related Environmental IssueAir PollutionClimate Change and EnergyRelated [...]