Transport 11-06-2024
Euractiv's Transport Brief brings you the latest on the transport sector in Europe.
Euractiv's Transport Brief brings you the latest on the transport sector in Europe. This week: Will EU government subsidise electric vehicles with one hand, and tax with the other?
Euractiv's Transport Brief brings you the latest on the transport sector in Europe. This week, a tale of the Brenner Pass transport dispute between Austria and Italy.
Long-haul trucking is considered one of the hardest activities to decarbonise. Industry experts differ on whether the solution is hydrogen trucks – which are less efficient but have greater range - or battery electric trucks, which will be cheaper to run but need more stops to recharge.
Euractiv's Transport Brief brings you the latest on the transport sector in Europe. This week, a successful time for cycling policy, but challenges remain for implementation.
Euractiv's Transport Brief brings you the latest roundup of news affecting the transport sector in Europe.
Ahead of the EU parliament election in early June, it's currently party congress season.
In case you have a driving licence in your wallet, you might want to dedicate some attention to Strasbourg this week, where the European Parliament is having its plenary.
With only a few weeks left ahead of the last session of the European Parliament in April, most of what is left on the EU legislative agenda is considered very 'technical.'
Every year on New Year’s Eve, Germans watch a sketch with the catchphrase “the same procedure as last year” — probably to remind each other that, no matter what happens, some things just stay the same.
As we move closer to the European elections in June, work on legislation in Brussels is slowly coming to an end. This week, the European Parliament and EU countries are holding multiple negotiations, known as 'trilogues', to close deals before the EU-wide ballot.
The climate crisis has provoked a raft of new technological solutions, from the ridiculous to the sublime. In defining its transport policy for the coming years, the next European Commission will need to push industry towards sustainable change.
A leaked election manifesto of the centre-right European People’s Party group (EPP) vows to “revise” the combustion engine phase-out, raising questions as to whether hard-won Green Deal laws will unravel in the wake of a more conservative EU.
As EU environmental targets increase in ambition, so too does the temptation for companies to engage in creative climate accounting - to declare climate progress without putting in the hard, and oftentimes expensive, work of reducing emissions.
For the global aviation sector, it has been a tumultuous start to 2024. The first week of the new year has already seen two major aviation incidents, focusing attention on the resilience and safety of aircraft in operation.
The plethora of EU legislation proposed in 2021 to cut emissions was largely finalised in 2023, with new rules passed that will significantly alter the environmental impact of transport in Europe.
The European Union held a day of transport side-events at COP28 on 6 December. However, the gap between Europe’s regulatory approach and that of other nations raises questions as to what lessons can be gleaned from the EU example.
Car manufacturers lobby group ACEA released a list of policy recommendations for the European institutions for the next five years, outlining measures the industry says are vital to meet the economic and environmental challenges facing the sector.
