It would be nice if the EU would do something useful like require all sites to hash salted passwords and prohibit the use of weak hashes for new accounts. Instead we get the ridiculous cookie nag.
Another vote from a fellow European to keep Brussel bureaucrats out of internet.
They have no clue or somehow good intentions always turn our horrible.
An old saying about countries that can't get together a government (like ironically Belgium!) - - it's the best for the people for having a country without the government because then they can't make more stupid laws.