This is not just the Europe, all world wants to know who you are. The government want to know everything about you. This interest is due to their taxes. They want to regularize all the systems from where a common man makes money and government puts taxes on them.
Exactly. Look what happens in South Korea for instance, the government made all anonimous cryprocurrency transactions illegal, so anyone who seeks for privacy becomes outlaw. It seems to be natural state reaction, every developed country will join such regulation