After more than a year of negotiations, the European Parliament and the Council came to a provisional agreement on the establishment of the EU Social Climate Fu...A recent compromise on EU climate legislation means that money from the €87 billion fund will be available for purchase subsidies, cycling infrastructure and bike sharing...
On Tuesday 14 March, the European Parliament voted for an ambitious and progressive set of amendments to the European Commission’s proposal on the Energy Perfor...The European Parliament agrees on a progressive set of amendments for the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, calling for EU Member States to implement favourable...
In November 2022, the Government of Gibraltar announced a revision of the Highway Code in order to promote safer roads and a more sustainable and efficient tran...Gibraltar launches its Active Travel Strategy, aiming to promote healthier and more environmentally friendly ways of travelling around Gibraltar. The strategy promis...
On Thursday 9 March 2023, at the Cycling Industries Europe Summit in Brussels, European Commission Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans, announced that the...European Commission Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans announces ambitious plans for cycling in 2023, including the creation of an interinstitutional...
The gender gap in the use of active travel modes (walking, public transport and cycling) is still an understudied subject that has only recently started to gain...On International Women’s Day we give attention to gender differences in active travel across the world. Women’s experience of moving across the city differs significantly...
Helsingborg is a coastal city in southern Sweden with a population just over 150,000 people. Following years of investments in cycling and exemplary m...ECF welcomes the City of Helsingborg to Cities & Regions for Cyclists, a network that brings together local and regional administrations actively working to promote c...
On 16 February 2023, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on developing an EU cycling strategy. The European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF) worked hard...The European Parliament's new resolution aims to double cycling in Europe by 2030, calling for an EU cycling strategy to achieve this. ECF explains why this is such a sig...
The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg intends to play a pioneering role in the mobility transition, on a local, national, and international level. In the comin...ECF welcomes the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg to Cities & Regions for Cyclists, a network that brings together local and regional administrations actively promo...
The European Parliament’s Resolution on developing an EU Cycling Strategy tasks the European Commission with doubling the number of kilometres cycled in Europe...The European Parliament has passed a historic resolution calling for the European Commission to develop a European cycling strategy with the aim of doubling the number of...
The European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF) is delighted to announce that the 2025 edition of Velo-city, its flagship world cycling summit, will be hosted in Gdańsk...The City of Gdańsk, Poland wins bid to host the world cycling summit. This is first time Velo-city will be held in Poland, with the conference set to take place...
Key progress was made on the development of an EU cycling strategy with the European Parliament’s Transport and Tourism Committee (TRAN) voting to adopt a resol...MEPs in the European Parliament's Transport and Tourism Committee have voted to adopt a resolution on developing an EU cycling strategy. The resolution calls for a d...
The Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) is the EU's primary network of roads, railway lines, inland waterways, ports, maritime shipping routes, airports an...ECF highlights good and bad practices from across Europe of where the Trans-European Transport Network interacts with cycling.