Driving license: “Freedom and participation” – CSU needs to permit folks aged 16 and over to drive throughout the EU | EUROtoday

The CSU needs to permit accompanied driving from the age of 16, which has been in impact nationwide since 2011. “We are committed to ensuring that the EU member states allow accompanied driving from the age of 16 for driving license class B,” says a draft decision for the retreat of the CSU members of the Bundestag in Seeon Monastery in Upper Bavaria. This is reported by the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, and the passage from the paper can also be obtainable to the German Press Agency in Munich.

“We introduced driving licenses at the age of 17 in Germany, and our model of accompanied driving has proven to be a great success. Now we want to go one step further and make accompanied driving possible from the age of 16,” mentioned CSU regional group chief Alexander Hoffmann. For many younger folks, a driving license is the ticket to maturity. “Especially in rural areas, it means freedom and participation – we want to make that possible sooner.”

According to the paper, the likelihood must also be created “to allow solo driving from the age of 17 in exceptional cases” if the related folks have beforehand “gained sufficient driving experience for at least one year as part of accompanied driving from the age of 16”. The CSU justifies its initiative with, amongst different issues, higher security by way of extra driving expertise.

The FDP had additionally referred to as for the age restrict for accompanying driving to be lowered just a few years in the past. Several federal states have been planning corresponding mannequin tasks, corresponding to those who already existed for accompanying driving from the age of 17. However, these have to date failed attributable to EU regulation.

Mandatory language assessments for daycare youngsters and ESC boycott in solidarity with Israel

The CSU draft decision additionally supplies for a nationwide requirement for language assessments in preschool age, as has already been regulated in Bavaria since final yr. All youngsters should full acceptable assessments one and a half years earlier than beginning college until they will present affirmation of their present good language expertise from a state-funded daycare middle. This ought to allow any language deficits to be responded to at an early stage. Children who’ve language deficiencies should then participate in an built-in German course.

In addition, the CSU is looking for a strict boycott by Germany of main musical or cultural occasions such because the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) if Jewish or Israeli artists are to be excluded. Germany can also be not allowed to help such occasions financially.