Europe is all about protectionism. Protecting domestic businesses and protecting national CAA and "professional" flying school jobs.
No, it's all about protecting the non-jobs of the useless €urocrats at EASA with their baffling paper, sorry, on-line bull$hit which is neither necessary nor welcome.
The CAA are the only people known to have surrendered to the French in recent years; the absurd LPL will be an utter disaster which the CAA itself will have to sort out, should it ever be forced upon us - unlike the NPPL which was a product of authority and industry synergy.