Progress ?
Thirty or so years or so ago we had one License to fly light aircraft, then the goal of European integration was set to provide a common standard across the new economic area.
So now we have to have more than one License required to fly light aircraft and the whole thing is administered by people who have no idea of the practical requirements of light aviation and at a cost that is set to kill light aviation.
Is this what EASA calls progress ? Or is it just job protection from those in the national authorities ?