That doesn't mean that we shouldn't start to get our european house in order come on guys surely you would prefer to start building a thriving European flight training system
I don't think anyone doesn't want a world-class thriving European traning system. So why not build such a system, and let people flock to it instead of the FAA.
Instead, the "North Korean" approach, as Jan Brll put it, is to stop people exercising any choice. In general, most political and economic systems have not found that a good means of getting their "house in order" or "building thriving industries".