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I think so, if the rules are really identical in Europe now.
In Germany it's possible only, if the driver of the car has a truck-driver-license, because it's seen as a trailer with two axles. With the regular car-driver-license you are only allowed to tow trailers with a single axle (double axles, closer than 99 cm to each other are seen as one axle).
If you hade made your license after 1999, you have to make (and pay) extra lessons for towing a trailer. Before 1999 it was included.
The German rules about driver-license are now identical with the other EU-countries. Before that we had a few different ones. So with a normal license now you are allosed to drive light trucks up to 3.5 tons max weight. Before 1999 it was up to 7.5 tons.
The rules for motorbike-license were changes many times. Now it depends on the engine-power. Without any bike-license, max 50 ccm-bikes are allowed. Before 1980 it was 250 ccm.
One German rule is still unique: a driver-license is valid unlimited (except those for buses and truck, but this is a newer law, too). So it's not as in the USA.
A strange result is, that very old licenses, are still vaild, so that ones, made in the GDR, even them from the pre-1957 Saar-area (which belonged to France), even the very few left over pre-war-licenses are still vaild! But only civil ones, not the Wehrmacht- or NSKK-issues.
In Germany it's possible only, if the driver of the car has a truck-driver-license, because it's seen as a trailer with two axles. With the regular car-driver-license you are only allowed to tow trailers with a single axle (double axles, closer than 99 cm to each other are seen as one axle).
If you hade made your license after 1999, you have to make (and pay) extra lessons for towing a trailer. Before 1999 it was included.
The German rules about driver-license are now identical with the other EU-countries. Before that we had a few different ones. So with a normal license now you are allosed to drive light trucks up to 3.5 tons max weight. Before 1999 it was up to 7.5 tons.
The rules for motorbike-license were changes many times. Now it depends on the engine-power. Without any bike-license, max 50 ccm-bikes are allowed. Before 1980 it was 250 ccm.
One German rule is still unique: a driver-license is valid unlimited (except those for buses and truck, but this is a newer law, too). So it's not as in the USA.
A strange result is, that very old licenses, are still vaild, so that ones, made in the GDR, even them from the pre-1957 Saar-area (which belonged to France), even the very few left over pre-war-licenses are still vaild! But only civil ones, not the Wehrmacht- or NSKK-issues.