During the Connecting Europe Days 2024 – the European Commissions’ annual event to promote a sustainable, smart and resilient, transport and mobility network – the transport coalition started its campaign ‘More EU Budget for transport’. Europe’s transport network urge the Council and the European Parliament to increase the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) budget for transport in the upcoming review of the Multi-Annual Financial Framework. Massive over subscriptions of the current CEF transport budget underline once again that the ambitions and challenges of the transport sector are high, yet are not met with the necessary EU support. The take-away for European leaders and policymakers should be clear: this is the moment for Europe to reverse the trend of continued under-funding of the transport sector and set the bar high. (....)