The new EASA FTL draft gives me about 1 h less flight duty a day (depending when it starts), so I see it as a good thing.
There are a lot of misconception around about captains discretion. They go to the national aviation authority, if it's above 2 h they have to be sent immediatly. Any airline that will use this tool too often will hear something from their supervising body. Unless you are in a banana republic...
Tim, you want to tell me that Lufthansa will change their FTLs into EASA standard as soon as they are in force? Do you really believe this? VC would call out industrial actions immediatly. Anyway, I don't see why I should fight for them, since they are top of the food chain and the most powerful pilots corps on the continent (apart from the cabin crew in BA...). If they want to fight, they should fight for us, not we for them.