But that would require the politicians to change EASA's beloved 'Basic Regulation'...
....and that will never happen, the precedent that such a move would set would be wholly unacceptable to the eurocracy. Instead, some way will be found (by re-interpreting/misinterpreting/ignoring EU law) to allow it to happen. The euroquacks have no more influence than you or I on the progress of Monnet's Great Plan.