EASA have included in Part FCL a similar qualification to the Brevet de Base called the Basic LAPL, which will allow flight only within 50km of the departure airfield, with no landings permitted anywhere else (i.e. A to A only) and with no more than one passenger and will apply throughout the EU. Consequently, France do not have to 'opt out' of anything and so the 'sauce for the goose' ploy doesn't apply.