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Presentation of Carlo SECCHI, Coordinator of the Atlantic TEN-T corridor, during the second panel on The role of railways in the TEN-T corridors and in the completion of its core network
Presentation of Alberto MAZZOLA, Executive Director, The Voice of European Railways (CER), during the first panel on Decarbonisation and Digitalisation of Railways
We only have nine years to prevent irreversible damage, and we are the last generation who can do it! We need leadership, ambition and courage, but most of all we need action, and we need it now. Let's get on with the change we need to see! Read the statement of Vice-president Cillian Lohan