Digital licences, cross-border penalties and stricter tests for learning drivers — can the EU's latest reform close the gap between Europe's safest and deadliest roads? Road deaths in the European Union reached nearly 20,000 last year and the bloc is determined to significantly curb that number by 2050.     In the latest move to reduce road fatalities, EU lawmakers this week adopted new EU-wide driving license rules, including the introduction of digital licenses and cross-border penalties.