The railway sector faces significant financial challenges and ambitious targets to complete the TEN-T Network and develop its digital programme. To achieve the European Green Deal’s ambitious climate targets with a 90% reduction in transport emissions by 2050 and to ensure modal shift to more sustainable transport modes, more needs to be done. The rail sector calls for a more ambitious Multi-annual Financial Framework (MFF), and concretely the new Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) to be proposed by mid-2025 has to have a co-funding of at least EUR 100 billion. With the current position paper, rail sector associations set the investment priorities to realise the Single European Railway Area including the TEN-T and to ensure that the transport system as a whole efficiently supports EU’s economic growth.

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