Originally we were told that it was the intention of EASA to make it 'more attractive' to operate an aircraft on a European register than on a 3rd country register.
It soon became obvious that the lying bunch of €urocratic shysters couldn't deliver on that, so they turned to compulsion. Or should that read blackmail.
Now we learn that, far from the 2-3000 pilots EASA thought this might affect, the figure is around 68000.
The whole damn nonsense of Regulation 216/2008 needs to be thrown in the bin and EASA needs to be scrapped. Then a more reasoned fresh start made. But regrettably that's somewhat porcovolant, so we must continue the political lobbying and public exposure of EASA madness.