Ehh all the EU rules are made with help of: the local CAA's, representatives of Unions and employers... So in other words: the people that are representing you either politically or as an employee.. So ALL the FTL's are written in full transparency... But I guess that they don't tell you that in the Daily Star?
Not to mention, the EU sets a limit at the low end. Countries can require higher limits. That said, working conditions apart from some very basic concepts (4 weeks of paid vacation per year, 8 days off per month for example) are not regulated by the EU, they are local laws decided by the relevant governments in each state. Especially laws governing the right to strike, or to build unions and what those unions can do differ wildly across the EU and are not unified in any form. P2F is such a practice that requires currently local laws to outlaw its use, although the social dialogue of the EU (on the insistence of ECA) is actually on that case, but the EU quite often works very slowly. Of course it doesn't help that unions representing pilots do not take part in the required international lobbying within brussels, like for example ver.di representing the orange pilots in germany.