EU driving license put on hold

EU transport ministers failed yesterday (27 June) to reach agreement on a proposed new EU-wide credit card-shaped driving license.

A compromise proposal had been hammered out between the European Commission and the European Parliament in February, but a political agreement between EU transport chiefs was "impossible", according to Luxemburg's transport Minister, Lucien Lux, who chaired the meeting.

The EU licence would have been "a symbol of European citizenship" and "one stone i...