They don't recognise the French, German [and Belgian, for that matter] medical for the issuance of a UK JAR-FCL PPL.
OK; that business is going to get more complicated under EASA because the license issuance country will have to be the same one which keeps your medical records.
I've been trying to get my head around that one but presumably it is to cut down on people doing their initial medicals (especially CV tests) in certain well known locations
OTOH can't the initial CV test be done in any
ICAO country?
Also EASA is refusing to recognise pilot papers from e.g. Croatia which was formerly a JAA country.