The European Commission (EC) announced on Monday that it will offer 60,000 train tickets – of which 5,529 will be for Spain– young Europeans between the ages of 18 and 20 to undertake a 30-day rail journey through Europe alone or in groups of up to five people. The initiative of the Community Executive continues a program launched in 2018 and interrupted by the travel restrictions of the pandemic in the last two years.
For this reason, the Commission will allow not only those who turn 18 years of age to participate in the new call but, exceptionally, to those who were born between July 1, 2001 and December 31, 2003. Tickets can be requested through the DiscoverEU website (https://europa.eu/youth/discovereu_en) between noon tomorrow, October 12, and noon on the 26th of the same month for a tour.
The trip should be scheduled between February 2022, coinciding with the European Year of Youth, which will take over from the European Year of the Train, and March 2023. “As the evolution of the pandemic is unknown, all travelers will be offered flexible bookings. To reinforce sustainable travel and support the European Green Deal, DiscoverEU participants will mainly travel by train, “the Commission said in a statement.
The Commission explained that each Member State you are assigned a number of travel passes, depending on its population, as a proportion of the total population of the European Union, so that Germany will receive 9,708 banknotes,
France you will get 7,865, the United Kingdom 7,802 (despite not being an EU member state), Italy 6,940 and Spain 5,529, community sources specified. They will be followed by Poland (4,424), Romania (2,248), Netherlands (2,036), Greece (1,249) Czech Republic (1,249), Sweden (1,209), Portugal (1,202), Hungary (1,138), Austria (1,041), Bulgaria ( 809), Denmark (681), Finland (645), Slovakia (637), Ireland (582), Cyprus (472), Lithuania (326), Slovenia (245), Latvia (222), Estonia (155), Luxembourg ( 74) and Malta (60).
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