Fortunatly Europe is a tiny and pretty insignificant player in Aviation (despite what some on here believe), the Feds are the big players and ultimately it is them who set the rules and procedures worldwide, eventually everyone else follows. I suspect thats lots of changes are iminent but then it has always been this way, I started flying in 1992 and there were always dark clouds on the horizon. Nobody really knows what will happen and like IO540 says we have until 2012, 4 years is a long time in aviation!