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
Germany extends pandemic border restrictions
Border restrictions banning the vast majority of people from entering from the Czech Republic and the Austrian state of Tyrol are to now remain in place until March 3.
At the foot of the Pyrenees planes put out to pasture
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German entry bans cause ripple effects in Europe as hauliers tested
Germany introduces Covid-19 border entry restrictions, which have several consequences for the neighbouring countries and the European Union.
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Scottish seafood sector takes Brexit protests to London
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UK’s Brexit plans to be tested as festive period ends
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