Being a non-EU citizen in the EU is an interesting perspective. While we studied the EU law chapter in my law course, it caused a bit of passion on the topic, as to how being in the EU has impacted the UK. As I have no personal, historical perspective on this account, I tend to see it more from a black and white numbers or law basis.
As we know, I need to take the UK Driver's test. Background on that one is here and here. While doing a little research, I noticed that they are hiring Driver test examiners in the UK. Most interesting to me is under the 'brief description':
You’ll need to have held a UK or EU licence continuously for 4 years (and with no more than 3 current penalty points)
Well, that's me actually. I've held an EU license continuously for 4 years with no more than 3 penalty points. When I mentioned this to one of my UK colleagues, to borrow one of my favorite German terms, he ausgeflippt.
His key points were:
-There was probably some EU directive forcing the UK to allow other EU country citizens to apply.
-Driver examiners could then come over from other EU lands where they are used to driving on the other side of the road and other types of road signs, etc. Just because they hold an EU passport does not qualify them to examine UK drivers without intrinsic UK road knowledge, and at a very minimum, a UK driver's license.
-->EU Directive 91/439/EEC from 1991 abolished the need for EU community members to exchange drivers licenses, btw, and established that member licenses are fully recognized in other member countires.
-->From this act also: 'The work of driving examiners must be monitored and supervised, by a body authorized by the Member State, to ensure correct and consistent application of fault assessment in accordance with the standards laid down in this Annex'.
Freedom in a small frame, this EU...
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He's mostly right but seems to have forgotten about Ireland, where right-hand drive cars are also used. Just saying... :-)
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