Didn't someone post once that the FAA treat Europe as one airspace.
Yes, I think that was IO. I think he is correct, after all they now think Europe is like America except it is governed from Brussels instead of Washington - and they are probably right. They cant imagine how Scotland for example can have any degree of sovreignty - after all they have towns bigger than Scotland.
When we are all licensed by EASA they might even be closer to the truth.
Dont forget that a FAA license doesn't need an expensive renewal every few years.
Except my CAA license was issued for life, until of course the politicians forgot what the word meant - what a bunch of half wits. How simple would it have been to make it a condition of signing up to EASA that existing life licenses would be validated by EASA as such. In the fullnes of time they would work their way out of the system.