gosub
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I grant you but Spain not recognising UK driving licenses is taking the piss a bit
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I grant you but Spain not recognising UK driving licenses is taking the piss a bit
ska invita
back on the other side
whats the details of that?
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
that is
not just spain, you need your passport if you go into ireland from the uk
gosub
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Only if you have hold luggage
gosub
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UK driving licences no longer valid in Spain
British residents with no Spanish licence to take Spanish tests!. Embassy still confident of a deal being reached.
www.google.com
Not that I want to drive in Spain, the standard of driving there is appalling you constantly have to flash your headlights and beep your horn to remind people to get over to the left. Surprised there aren't more accidents
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
only realable way to tell if someone is english or not is to wait and see if they form a queue around the depature gate without promting from the staff
Why is it taking the piss? Why should brits be exempt from following the rules that others likely have to follow? Spain isn’t the only country in the world that requires people living there to take tests to get a license even if they have a license from another country. I believe that the UK do too.that is
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
IME that’s a confusion common to almost every nationality.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Thanks to English people, who ought to know better.
I'm ashamed to be both/either.
Raheem
Well-Known Member
I think it's not that you can't drive in Spain using a UK driving licence, it's that you can't use it as a substitute for a passport to enter the country (which I think you couldn't before Brexit anyway).
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
No, you can't use it to drive in Spain. I have relatives in France who were worried the same thing would happen to them, but the respective governments managed to reach agreement.
UK-Issued Driving Licences No Longer Valid for Britons Living in Spain From May 1 - SchengenVisaInfo.com
The United Kingdom authorities have announced that starting from May 1, all British citizens who have been residing in Spain for over six months will no longer be permitted to drive with their UK-issued driving licences. The news was announced last night by the British Ambassador to Spain, Hugh...
www.schengenvisainfo.com
gosub
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No, you can't use it to drive in Spain. I have relatives in France who were worried the same thing would happen to them, but the respective governments managed to reach agreement.
UK-Issued Driving Licences No Longer Valid for Britons Living in Spain From May 1 - SchengenVisaInfo.com
The United Kingdom authorities have announced that starting from May 1, all British citizens who have been residing in Spain for over six months will no longer be permitted to drive with their UK-issued driving licences. The news was announced last night by the British Ambassador to Spain, Hugh...
The work around will IMO be the £5.50 Inernational Driving Permit same as the Yanks if they want to drive in Spain. As usual gov.uk isn't up to speed
philosophical
Well-Known Member
All languages in the EU are official languages.
The three ‘working’ languages are French, German and English.
It should now be changed to French, German and Spanish in my opinion, and all the ‘working’ stuff previously only in English, should be required in either French, German and Spanish.
There are a lot of positive reasons why Spanish should now replace English as one of the three main EU working languages.
The UK voted leave so any decision made by the EU as to how they proceed is none of the UK’s business.
The three ‘working’ languages are French, German and English.
It should now be changed to French, German and Spanish in my opinion, and all the ‘working’ stuff previously only in English, should be required in either French, German and Spanish.
There are a lot of positive reasons why Spanish should now replace English as one of the three main EU working languages.
The UK voted leave so any decision made by the EU as to how they proceed is none of the UK’s business.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
so why is it yours then?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Yeh you'd have thought he'd have given the Irish some thought before proposing the erection of a linguistic barrier
philosophical
Well-Known Member
The English speakers in Ireland are about the same number as Flemish speakers in the EU.
philosophical
Well-Known Member
Why is what mine?
I get it, why is it my business?
Because I have an EU passport, and also a long lapsed British one.
Anyway, I think Spanish would be a great choice.
It is a Southern European language with ‘Latin’ features which might benefit others like Italians and Portuguese . Spanish is a huge language in the Americas and certainly South America, and the EU adopting Spanish as a main working language might give a boost to language education in the UK and create jobs.
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teuchter
je suis teuchter
English is the world's most widely spoken language. And it's the world's main lingua franca whether anyone likes it or not. As the EU interacts with the rest of the world, it seems pretty sensible to have English as one of its official languages.
And aside from that, English is the most widely understood language within the EU too. It would be nuts to dump it as an official language - everyone would carry on using it anyway.
And aside from that, English is the most widely understood language within the EU too. It would be nuts to dump it as an official language - everyone would carry on using it anyway.
philosophical
Well-Known Member
If they carry on using it anyway then dropping English as a formal working language and replacing it with (only my suggestion) Spanish would be no biggie.
There is a lot of the 'rest of the world' that use Spanish, and the use of Spanish would recognise the importance of an EU state.
The UK has left after all.
Latin used to be a pan European language previously, but it isn't one now, there may well be future circumstances where English becomes very marginal.
Confronting languages other than English may well be of huge benefit to the English speaking population in the UK.
Could even become a joint learning experience along with humility.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
Isn't the IDP more for people who are on a holiday or other shortish stay, rather than people who are now resident?
As far as I'm aware, when UK was in the EU, driving licences were interchangeable, but if you became resident in the UK, you were expected to exchange your (EU country issued) licence for a DVLA one (same as you can drive a non UK registered car here if you're on holiday but if you move here you are supposed to register it in the UK) or of course vice versa if you had a UK licence but moved somewhere else.
If Spain are singling out the UK for the lols, then not good.
If Spain are now treating UK the same as any other non EU country, 'taking back control'...
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
No you don’t, the common travel area is wholly unaffected by Brexitnot just spain, you need your passport if you go into ireland from the uk
Airlines want to see a passport to fly within the uk too
Nope
BA doesn’t. And Loganair and EasyJet’s insistence is as you say only tested when checking in baggage and they capitulate the moment you say you have jack.
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UK delays full checks on EU food imports -- again
Checks on certain food imports from Europe have been delayed once more by the government in the United Kingdom. Jacob Rees-Mogg, Brexit opportunities
www.foodsafetynews.com
Came up in my FB feed by one of those types who seems inintent on trying to keep EU membership an a thing (he's only 50 doomiing yourself to 30 years of being seen as increasingly irrelevant and tedious seems an odd lfe choice, but it's a free country)
Checks ARE important. We were getting horsemeat lasagna before we left the EU, no checks and we end up a dumping ground for every substandard bit of food in the EU)
What is needed is a Vetinary standards in food HNC. That EU also acknowledges then they can do both the import and export checks. A lower qualification than currently required but it shouldn't take 7 years trading to sign off a packet of chocolate biscuits. Would reduce costs and bottleneck without endangering public.health
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Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Forgot this was on.
3000 followers for a 120 million festival seems a poor result.
3000 followers for a 120 million festival seems a poor result.
sleaterkinney
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Boris has cracked it, food, lighting and heating all in one!
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