On Saturday, 8 August within ‘789’ European Hitchhikers’ Festival a decision was made to create European Hitchhiking Federation in Odesa.

Several participants at once made this proposition and it was immediately supported by the rest.

Preliminary they decided to create an information portal, where the project would be discussed. Representatives of over 20 countries expressed their wish to participate in the federation. The organization is so far to be an informal union of people fond of hitchhiking. The union’s aim is to coordinate the movement of hitchhikers in different European countries and setting relations with the same kind of organizations in other countries of the world.

European Hitchhikers’ Festival was taking place in Odesa through August 7 – 9. The participants arrived from Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Holland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Turkey, and Ukraine.