All european licensed instructors working at WMU have all got FAA licenses and instructor ratings anyway. It is a requirement to instruct on a US registered aircraft anyway regardless what licence is sought after.I can not see the FAA ever making it harder for them to operate there, in fact the opposite would be the case, they have already had a lot of political support when the JAR tryed to insist on all training in Europe. One thing the yanks are good at is ensuring that the money always flows in their direction and if a trade sanction or a general dummy spit is reguired well so be it. Sounds like they are just trying to negotiate some extras which they will never get with the usual negotiating style of threats.