Does that really make a practical difference?
My (UK CAA issued) JAA License doesn't contain a picture so it is only valid together with some sort of official picture ID. Drivers license, passport, ID card or whatever.
Apart from the fact that EU legislation calls for IDs to be carried at all times anyway.
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Edited: I now read the article and it seems to me the OP didn't summarize its significance properly. What the article describes is a TSA measure requiring airports to issue specific airport IDs to all people that regularly need unescorted access to certain areas (as described in the article and other TSA directives).
Yep, that's a measure that's already being implemented in the EU. In fact my home base airport (Rotterdam) has tried that too for our little out-of-the-way GA apron, until we reminded them of the practical problems and cost associated with issuing and administering all these IDs (800+ members). They got around it by defining "airside" into a number of different zones, and our "zone" has slightly relaxed security rules from the zone where the 737s normally park - pilots in our zone just have to have some form of ID on them and your license plus some form of picture ID will suffice.