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Only 6 out of 27 EU countries have local high-speed rail connections, and HSR between EU capitals are rather rare. Europe continues to neglect the potential for the development of long-distance HSR infrastructure. The positive economic effect of the construction of HSR would be measured in billions of euros, and the carbon footprint reduction of the EU would be in the order of hundreds of millions of tons of CO2.
In order to connect the capitals of Europe by HSR, countries need to work together, and therefore we have launched a European Citizens’ Initiative. Under European law, the European Commission is obliged to commit to our goal to connect Europe’s capitals through High-Speed Rail if we collect at least 1,000,000 signatures of EU-citizens. Consequently, many European countries are participating in the initiative.
Would you like the European Commission to commit itself to this purpose and determine our common future? You can, by supporting this European Citizen Initiative. Click on the button below and sign the initiative. Sign What is a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) The European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) is a European Union (EU) mechanism that aims to enhance direct democracy by enabling “EU citizens to participate directly in EU policy-making”, introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon in 2007. The initiative enabl
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