Now, either because it is too difficult to manage or because it is expedient, EASA might be looking to delegate some of the low-level licensing (aircrew and aircraft) back to "national" bodies.
rustle forgive me if I've got this wrong but EASA seem to be in two minds about this...on the one hand they want to integrate...but on the other they don't have resources to do so...so actually FCL licencing comes back to the 'professionals' ie the people in the national CAAs who have been doing it for years.
Disregarding what I said earlier that bose took issue with that sounds more like a stay of execution for the IMC rating rather than actually saving it- EASA will one day want to 'complete' the take over even if they can't do it in the near future.