humble wrote:i plan on checking our europe for a little bit and would like to get a drivers license there as my u.s one is suspended (2 reckless driving and 1 dui... bye bye license for 2 years!!!)
i have a UK passport but its quite possible that ill end up in any EU country.
with that in mind, will i be able to start from scratch in spain or france for example with my UK passport????
As far as I know, yes, but you'd have to be 'living there' - I don't know, however, exactly how 'living there' is defined in practice by the authorites that issue driver licenses in those countries. At the very least I imagine that you would have to be able to provide an address that worked, but they might need more evidence. The same would go, of course, for holders of non-EU/EEA passports, and I don't think that being a citizen of an EU country will confer any particular advantages in this regard.
Unless you can swap your current licence you will have to sit a driving test, presumably. And unless you speak French or Spanish (for example) reasonably fluently, the test will be harder in those countries than it would in the UK (or Ireland), where the test would be conducted in English (albeit on the left-hand side of the road, which you won't be used to!).
