Haven't seen the article, but have been having long, theoretical discussions with my CAA surveyor regarding the rapidly approaching shortfall of Certifying Licenced Engineers.
My observation of 'if we don't have a re-introduction of the Approved Un-Licenced Certifying Engineer - those people who overnight in the mid '90's were put on the scrapheap by the then newly introduced Airworthiness 14 (remember that one?) - what is the Authority going to do?'
The honest answer ' I really don't know what EASA are going to do'.
Maybe this is where the basis of Tech Log's article is from??