Originally Posted by
ChickenHouse
Rumors I heard were it was due to the incompetence to arrange EU-wide frequencies, so each country did its own without coordination. Second may be the increasing power of modern radios, as in the old days of 5-6 watts it was easy to be far away, but at 10-16 watts far is much farther. I somehow doubt they really needed it, especially looking at airspaces like in the US still running fine on 25.
The problem is that we haven’t been able to get an effective European mechanism for frequency allocation. The EU only gets to organise stuff the member nations sign up to under the Treaties and thus far there hasn’t been an appetite for common action.