According to a recent study, the total running cost of a car can be nearly €13,000 per year. Using similar parameters, ECF’s Ceri Woolsgrove breaks down how much money can potentially be saved by switching to a bicycle instead.
The Council of the EU has reached an agreement on updated rules for VAT rates that will benefit consumers all over the EU. Member states will now be able to apply reduced VAT rates on both conventional bicycles and e-bikes.
Several EU Member States have expressed interest in the Benelux Bike Declaration following a meeting of transport ministers in Luxembourg on 3 June 2021. The declaration puts cycling at the centre of EU recovery plans and the European Green Deal.
According to a study by the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy published last week, 281,000 people were employed in the different sectors of the cycling economy in Germany in 2019. The cycle tourism sector alone stood for 204,...
Tourism is one of the world's largest economic sectors, supporting one in 10 jobs (319 million) and generating 10,4% of GDP globally. And cycle tourism, generating over €44 billion only in Europe, was the topic of a closing plenary of the 3rd day in...
Here’s a quick round up of items cycling around in the ECF health arena. The EU seeks your input on how to make cities healthier places to live with more walking and cycling, how much of the EU budget should be spent on health, and your views on the...
200 years ago, in 1817, Karl von Drais built the first “running machine”, the predecessor of the modern bicycle, in the city of Mannheim (Germany). To celebrate his invention and to highlight its role for today’s mobility system, the German Federal...
Liveable cities are economically successful, and cyclists are good customers – more and more local businesses in Europe understand this link and work together with cycling advocates to improve conditions for active mobility. This is also the case in...
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...
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