Topic: ETF

It’s time the EU commits to financial support for rail to meet policy goals

Consistency in pursuing goals, political commitment and explicit financial guarantees. Those are the three pillars that will ensure rail investments take place in a targeted and efficient manner in pursuit of reaching climate and decarbonisation...Read more

24-04-2024|Comment|author: Nikos Papatolios

‘Halt investigations on state-owned companies,’ demands ETF

Concerns around the ongoing investigations on DB Cargo and Fret SNCF are amplifying. The European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) demonstrated in Brussels on Tuesday, 12 December, demanding that...Read more

13-12-2023|Comment|author: Nikos Papatolios

To liberalise or not: is rail freight under attack?

Market liberalisation has been a crucial component of rail freight growth in Europe. Since markets, like the German, started opening up to private initiatives less than fifteen years ago, rail cargo transport went into a...Read more

28-06-2023|Comment|author: Nikos Papatolios

A common language for European train drivers: additional hurdle or solution?

ANALYSISThe European rail sector remains divided: should there be a common language for cross-border train operations for staff such as train drivers, personnel and traffic controllers? The remarkable thing is that the freight association ERFA,...Read more

22-03-2023|Comment|author: Esther Geerts

Norbert Tilai, Hungary/Russian German Friendship / CER

CER and ETF work plan focuses on freight

A special focus on rail freight forms part of a joint work plan by the European Transport Workers Federation (ETF) and the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER). Following a meeting in Brussels, the...Read more

09-01-2018|Comment|author: Simon Weedy