1 week ago - Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States, has maintained a drinking age of 18. United States customs laws stipulate that no person under the age of 21 may bring any type or quantity of alcohol into the country. Most countries in Europe have set 18 as the minimum age to purchase alcohol.

November 8, 2024 - Be responsible, be reasonable, and if you’re going to get ripped, be wise enough to arrange safe train travel back to your hostel or hotel. ... Visit Europe as an 18 year old and you should rarely find obstacles to alcohol, especially in countries ...

July 29, 2025 - Eighteen is by far the most common legal drinking age worldwide. It is the standard in much of Europe (France, Spain, Italy), Latin America (Brazil, Argentina, Mexico), Africa (Kenya, South Africa) and Oceania (Australia, New Zealand).

July 12, 2020 - In the US, the legal drinking age is determined at a national level. At the time of this writing, it is 21 years of age. In all European countries, the legal drinking age is less than this, running from about 15 years old up to 20.

October 30, 2025 - Many European countries have raised the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) from 16 to 18 over the past decades. These policies often comprise a bundle of reforms including restrictions on alcohol sales to minors, venue access limitations, and ...

3 days ago - The Minimum Drinking Age in France is 18 for purchases and consumption of all alcoholic beverages. As of 2009, French teenagers could still buy wine, beer, and other fermented beverages at 16.

January 18, 2025 - Teenage drinking remains widespread in Europe. To address concerns about its negative effects on health and cognition, many European countries have raised their minimum legal drinking age from 16 to 18 in recent decades. This column reports on evidence from Spain, where regions increased the ...

January 19, 2022 - The CRC Committee suggests that the minimum age for the purchase and consumption of alcohol and tobacco should be 18 years (CRC General Comment No. 20, 2016). The Council recommendation on the drinking of alcohol by young people, in particular children and adolescents (2001/458/EC) clearly ...

December 7, 2021 - While most European countries uphold an MLDA of 18 years, some countries, such as Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, or Switzerland, allow on- and off-premise sales of beer and wine to teenagers as young as 16 years of age.

Answer (1 of 5): As others have already written, this is by country, and in part decided on the sub-national level (e.g. Switzerland). Also, you have to differentiate, in most countries, * alcohol buying age * minimum age to drink alcohol in public * minimum age to drink alcohol in private S...

February 6, 2024 - In Europe, a prevailing inclination is to fix the legal drinking age at either 16 years, as evident in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, and Luxembourg, or at 18 years, as observed in France, Spain, and Italy.

Teenage binge drinking is more prevalent in Europe than in the US, where alcohol is forbidden to people under the age of 21. This column looks at the relationship between minimum legal drinking ages and alcohol abuse. Using administrative health and survey data from Austria, it finds significantly ...

June 18, 2024 - Drinking Age In Europe Map by reddit user correiajoaoThis is actually a bit of a trick question, as several European countries including: Armenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, and Russia have no formal laws on what age people are allowed to consume alcoholic beverages.

With increasingly mobile and interconnected youth across the EU, it makes perfect sense to send a clear public health message that a legal drinking age for alcohol across Europe is 18.

Maps of Europe by legal system, legal age for purchasing alcohol, smoking bans, status of cannabis, age of sexual consent, LGBT rights, abortion laws, etc.

January 23, 2025 - For instance, in 2009 Spain raised ... is travelling through Europe or South America the MLDA limit is almost certain to be 18 years of age....

February 20, 2023 - ... If your parents /your legal guardian are with you and allow you to drink, you are legally allowed to drink, light alcohol '(beer, wine) at 14. ... Go home guide, you are drunk. Many countries in Europe is 16 for light stuff and 18 for the rest.

December 17, 2025 - According to the European School ... half of 15- to 16-year-olds report having consumed alcohol in the past 30 days, and roughly 30% of them have engaged in binge drinking. The new study conducted by Carmen Villa, an assistant professor at the economics department at the University of Zurich, provides novel evidence that raising the minimum legal drinking age from 16 to 18 years can significantly ...

November 13, 2024 - Also, a greater percentage of young ... 1-2 Most European youth have higher rates of alcohol-related problems because of their heavy drinking. Perhaps the best example of fact versus myth is what happened in New Zealand. In 1999, New Zealand lowered its purchase age from 20 ...

January 4, 2005 - France age for beer and wine is an unenforced 16, 18 for hard stuff - my son grew up in France and was buying hard booze in supermarkets way before 18 so not always enforced. 16 is legal age in bars for beer and wine. Holland i believe is 16 ...