News 26 Oct 2020

Joint letter - Transforming Europe’s rail system: budget & deployment

 

In this joint letter to European Commissioners Adina Vălean and Mariya Gabriel, CER, UNIFE, UIP and EIM express the strong commitment of the railway stakeholders community to contribute to future European railway research with a high level of technology readiness allowing to deliver and deploy tangible results for the European railway system. They emphasise that they are collectively committed to provide their efforts and resources to thoroughly transform Europe’s rail system. In this light they underline the importance of ensuring adequate funding of EUR 1.5 billion for the future generation of the EU Joint Undertaking Shift2Rail.

Read the full letter below.