How can the FAA allow you to pass their IR with a UK IMC and 25hours instruction while to CAA insist on 55? How can US pilots fly over our heads every day with worse eyesight than our ATPL's are allowed and still be safe? How can we here in the UK fly IMC with our IMC Rating and yet not be deemed safe enough in Europe??
Everyone reads acceptable safety standards differently.
Insurance companies
They just make up the numbers most of the time.
LF