This was the last ATV. It's the end of an era. ESA doesn't want to provide such cargo flights as routine since it would offer little to ESA and the European spa

This was the last ATV. It's the end of an era. ESA doesn't want to provide such cargo flights as routine since it would offer little to ESA and the European space industry to just keep producing existing designs routinely. They see the budget is better spent on developing new things. Unfortunately it looks like the next Ariane will have all-solid first stage. That means it's very unlikely to ever fly manned. ESA would have had a relatively good technology base to create manned capsules, but that route was not chosen. The ARD capsule flew a re-entry ages ago and the ATV has been a great success. I guess you can get Soyuz flights relatively cheaply and easily so no need to duplicate that. ESA is still working with re-entry technology and the small IXV lifting body test vehicle will fly a suborbital test mission this year, launched with Vega. But it's very slow progress.