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

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    27 days ago

    As I read it, at least the physical license will remain issued by member states. It’s a standardisation of license rules and an app (which is probably offered by EU).

    (Personally, I’m not sure this is all that important in light of the problems EU is otherwise faced with, and I really hope licenses will remain a national document – recall when Brexit Britain under Johnson didn’t recognise EU in a diplomatic role since it isn’t a “country” – but so be it.)

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        27 days ago

        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.)

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    27 days ago

    The title is a bit ambiguous. It is about a driving license, not a software license (such as the already existing European Union Public License) or any other type of license.

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        27 days ago

        I’m still at awe how we are living in post-reddit times, where a title can just be changed. Just like that. How many untrue titles and straight lies were posted back then on Reddit and it was just accepted as a fact that once a post ist up, it can never change its holy title. Like it were not technical possible. They decided to feed uneditable lies and florished from that. BUUUH REDDIT.

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