You should get around a bit. My EASA ATPL(H) public transport validity expired when I was 65. So I went to Australia and got an Oz ATPL(H) when I was 65 and a bit. Then China said I had to get a Chinese licence so I got a Chinese ATPL(H) when I was 66. I retired shortly before my 69th birthday but only because a job in Australia didn't materialise.
It must be a sod working in the EU.