The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has announced that a Spaniard who turns 18 will include them. An action that is in tune with others that the European Commission is taking. This is the case of the 60,000 train tickets -of which 5,529 will be for Spain- that the European Commission will give away to young Europeans between the ages of 18 and 20 so that they can 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 old to participate in the new call but, exceptionally, those who were born between July 1, 2001 and December 31, 2003.
Tickets may be requested between October 12 and noon on the 26th of the same month for a tour. Once achieved, the trip must 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.
The Commission explained that each Member State is allocated a number of travel passes, based on its population, as a proportion of the total population of the European Union, so Germany will get 9,708 tickets, France will get 7,865, the UK 7,802 (despite not being a member state of the EU), Italy 6,940 and Spain 5,529, community sources told Efe.
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