The Barcelona City Council has taken a crucial step towards establishing a continuous, high-capacity, and low-emission tram network by giving initial approval to the executive project for the tram connection between Passeig de Sant Joan and Francesc Macià on 21. October. This final phase will complete the essential link from the Baix Llobregat area to Northern Barcelonès, running through […]
From 6-9. October, the Busworld Europe 2025 Congress was held at Brussels Expo, uniting policymakers, operators, manufacturers, researchers, and civil society. As the premier event for the bus and coach sector, it focused on sustainable, inclusive, and digital public transport. EPF’s Senior Researcher Delphine Grandsart took part in three sessions, aligned with our mission to advance passenger rights, inclusion, […]
On 16 October, the International Union of Railways (UIC) hosted the first combined edition of the UIC Railway Station Awards and the TopRail Tourism-Friendly Awards at its headquarters in Paris. On behalf of the European Passengers’ Federation (EPF), Freek Bos (EPF member, Rover) had the honour of serving on the jury for this year’s Tourism-Friendly Awards in the categories “Line” […]
The European Commission is currently reviewing two interrelated sets of VAT provisions: the special VAT scheme for travel agents, and the VAT rules on passenger transport. The Call for Evidence highlights that the current rules are difficult to apply in practice (e.g., the place of supply rule based on distance travelled) and create market distortion, as different modes of transport are […]
On 15. October, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE) hosted a high-level conference in Brussels on “Young People and Transport Jobs: Making Transport Careers More Attractive”. The event brought together around 70 young people and 30 stakeholders from across Europe to explore how to make transport professions more appealing, inclusive, and future-oriented.
The conference was opened […]
EPF, together with other organisations defending passenger and consumer rights across Europe, has co-signed an open letter to MEPs, calling on them to reject the Council’s proposed revision of Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 on air passengers’ rights.
The letter warns that the Council’s proposal would undo more than twenty years of progress in protecting consumers. It introduces confusing and contradictory […]
EPF is pleased to endorse the Nicosia Declaration: “From Margins to Mainstream: Integrating Accessibility and Universal Design Across Higher Education Curricula”. Adopted in Nicosia on 10. September 2025, the Declaration calls for a structural shift in higher education to ensure that accessibility, universal design, and assistive technology are no longer peripheral or optional considerations, but central components of inclusive […]
EPF is excited to be a partner of the new Horizon Europe-funded CCAMbassador (Connected, Cooperative and Automated MoBility Assessment & Stakeholder Dedicated and Operational awareness Raising) project, which officially kicked off in Brussels on 2–3 July.
The CCAMbassador project, funded under Horizon Europe, complements the coordination and alignment efforts of the CCAM Partnership by expanding stakeholder engagement beyond research and […]
