The 20 hr French 'brevet de basse' is NOTHING like the NPPL!
Yes, the MDM032 people have yielded to Les Grenouilles and their 'brevet de suicide'....
Personally I would reject anything the MDM032 people propose out of hand. Let's keep sub-ICAO licences under national, not €urocratic, control and restrict such licences to UK, not EU airspace.
We worked tirelessly for years to refine the NPPL; now it seems that it will die thanks to EASA. Microlighters who want credit towards flying SSEA aircraft as you now can under NPPL terms? You can forget that under EASA.
Whopity is entirely correct - Brown and his gang of traitors signed us over to Europe without a referendum. The CAA is powerless against such treachery.