Groundloop - Virtually all of the pressure in Europe for the MPL is coming from LH, mainly because they already have the infrastructure in place to conduct the courses, with plenty of spare capacity for synthetic training. As FougaMagister suggested, enthusiasm in the rest of the European airline industry is, at best, lukewarm and getting cooler as more details are emerging. There are, to the best of my knowledge, two UK-based training providers that are actively pursuing approval for the MPL and both are seeking to conduct the bulk of the training in the third world.
So far as the bulk of wannabees is concerned, the MPL will not be relevant - it will only be financially viable for airline sponsored training and will give the holder very restricted privileges.