The European Commission’s transport spokesperson Anna-Kaisa Itkonen announced at a press briefing on Tuesday 22 November that the Commission was considering the proposal that every 18-year-old European citizen be given an InterRail ticket. She said she hoped an experimental phase would be launched as early as 2017.
“We are presently considering the form this experiment might take”, she went on, indicating that one of the possible options would be to provide additional funding for the...