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Toxic air pollutants, congested streets, adapting to climate change – these are some of the challenges that representatives from London, Brussels and Hamburg id...

22 Dec, 2017

Putting cycling high on the agenda of the European Commission, this was the main objective of the campaign for an EU Cycling Strategy. Initiated by ECF but supp...

13 Dec, 2017

This year’s VELOFORUM International Conference was held on October 6-8 in Mykolaiv/Ukraine, bringing together more than 100 participants from 24 Ukrainian citie...

13 Oct, 2017

Hundreds of officials representing the most active European cities in sustainable mobility attended the 15th CIVITAS conference in Torres Vedras, Portugal. We w...

13 Oct, 2017

Today MEPs sent mixed signals with regard to extending new requirements for electro-mobility infrastructure in buildings to (e-)cycling. On the positive side, t...

11 Oct, 2017

The epidemic of physical inactivity was the main topic of discussion at the Sport intergroup conference in the European Parliament (EP) last week. Its €80 billi...

03 Oct, 2017

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...

26 Sep, 2017

New approach to promoting physical activity moves cycling and walking to head of the pack. WHO launched a process developing a new Global Action Plan for t...

25 Jul, 2017
Committee on Transport and Tourism with the Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska

On the 11th July 2017 ECF was invited to the meeting of the European Parliament’s Committee on Transport and Tourism and a separate meeting with Antonio Tajani...

13 Jul, 2017

The official introduction of the EU Cycling Strategy to a Brussels audience will take place on June 28, in presence of the Transport Ministers from Belgium and Luxembourg...

29 Jun, 2017

120 participants talked and practiced cycling at the Big Bike Event, jointly organised by the transport teams of the Permanent Representations of the three Bene...

29 Jun, 2017

The EU Cycling Strategy recommendations were handed today to European Commissioner for Transport, Violeta Bulc, on the stage of Velo-city 2017 in Arnhem-Nijmegen. Over 1,...

16 Jun, 2017

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