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Backsliding on sustainable urban mobility in right-wing and far-right cities

23.4.2025

Question for written answer  E-001627/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Rosa Serrano Sierra (S&D)

In recent years, especially after the pandemic, many Spanish cities boosted sustainable mobility measures which received part-funding from EU funds. However, this trend has stopped – and even been reversed – in several places currently administered by Spain’s Popular Party, in many cases in coalition with Vox, which have begun to remove cycle lanes, reopen pedestrian streets to vehicles and prioritise motorised traffic.

These decisions constitute backsliding on sustainable mobility and place an additional obstacle in the way of the future Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) to be adopted in urban centres such as these by 2027 in conformity with Regulation 2024/1679.

Given this situation, can Commission answer the following questions:

Submitted: 23.4.2025

Last updated: 29 April 2025
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