The Commission welcomes the provisional agreement reached yesterday between the European Parliament and the Council on its initiative to modernising EU driving licence rules.
The original toot by @EUCommission
The Commission welcomes the provisional agreement reached yesterday between the European Parliament and the Council on its initiative to modernising EU driving licence rules.
The original toot by @EUCommission
Even in US, the licenses are issued by the states.
Which is stupidly expensive and redundant for no good reason
EU isn’t equivalent to the states (yet). It’s a loose’ish unions of nations. Passports are nation-issued, as are most professional credentials, but everything is recognised intra-union. In US (and Australia), passports are issued centrally, states are more like a local subdivision, irrelevant abroad.
US driving licenses are admittedly state issued. I suspect it’s more about violation points than anything else. And there’s a drive towards a federal format there as well.
(Sorry if I’m simplifying here.)