Position paper | Long-distance and cross-border rail services

The European Commission announced in its 2020 Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy (SSMS) to present an Action Plan to boost long-distance and cross-border rail services (‘Action Plan’) in the third quarter of 2021. The NGO coalition ‘Europe on Rail’, with environmental NGOs from five European Union (EU) members states, welcomes this urgently needed initiative and suggests content for the strategy in this Position Paper.