Europeans and JAR
This directive flies in the face of JAR rules and should be gone after by the JAR authorities soonest.
Because of it at least one company I know had to schedule its older UK based captains to fly to Scotland and Athens all the time, where as the Swiss branch had to chop you at 60, 'cos you don't go far from GVA without overflying France.
How French unions could benefit from foreign operators limiting its Captains to 60 I don't see. I am also sure that certain companies either don't know of this restriction or don't respect it.
As has been done to death on another thread, people age very differently from each other - some guys are out of shape by fifty and some are fit as fiddles at seventy these days. My opinion is that any pilot fulfilling the medical and skill requirements (which are pretty exacting) should be allowed to pursue his career.
And if you subscribe to a united Europe, you should accept all the rules (yeah - Euro as well).