Air traffic, inland waterway navigation and freight transport: Europe has also grown increasingly closer together in the area of transportation policy over the past few decades. But the EU now faces new challenges: Rising transportation needs, the transfer of freight traffic from road to rail, and the maintenance of infrastructure. Will the EU of today shape the mobility and transportation of tomorrow?
Transportation and mobility
The European Union in motion
Summer travel misery ahead as industry workers in revolt
A spiral of worker strikes in Europe's crucial aviation sector and cancelled flights at a time when millions of travellers are looking to escape for the summer, threaten the sector's tentative recovery
Kaliningrad: Russian outpost in the heart of Europe
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EU electric car adventurers should plan carefully
With Europe's electric car owners wondering whether to risk taking their vehicles for long journeys, AFP investigates the pitfalls and joys of long-distance emissions-free motoring
Dirty liberal pipe-dream: 3 myths about electric cars
Sceptics say the environmental benefits of electric cars are exaggerated despite studies showing that battery-powered vehicles cause fewer harmful greenhouse gas overall than their petrol-driven ancestors
Europe warms up to Russian shipping blockade
One of Sweden's two main dockworkers' unions decided at the end of March that it would not unload vessels with ties to Russia, in protest against Moscow's invasion of Ukraine
Last EU train out of Russia arrives in Helsinki
Just after 7pm on Sunday, the Allegro express train from St Petersburg pulled into the Finnish capital Helsinki, marking the closure of the last rail link between Russia and the EU