I hope they ditch the foreign license privilege stripping proposals. These are so utterly stupid, barmy, aggressive, and unprecedented (when was the last time thousands of pilots were summarily grounded?) that I would be happy to see EASA shut down totally just to achieve that.
EASA has done some good things, like grandfathering any EU certification done anywhere to
all member states. But given the lack of a central mod approval database, the usefulness of this has been limited.
Had they instead simply accepted FAA certification (as Australia now does) they would have achieved far more.
Their song is RECIPROCITY and signing treaties with everybody else in the world, with a maximally-aggressive alternative of "nothing at all". This is all very cozy and furry and warm; the standard European Intellectual Superior "we must have a TREATY" approach to everything, beyond reproach as much as Bob Geldof doing pop concerts to stop world poverty, but they forget that Europe is a tiny place on the globe and when it forgets that, the result is a humiliating political climbdown which will be paid for dearly by whoever in GA gets caught up in the face-saving fallout.
We will know more around 2012; probably later
