Well this article of Cointelegraph and its title seem to mostly be a clickbait actually. Because those claims come from the interpretation of some regulatory texts by European Crypto Initiative (EUCI), written in a book, so it's not an official statement from european legal institutions as I understand fortunately.
Besides that, it doesn't seem to concern individuals, only platforms actually.
That does not surprise me in the least. Most crypto e-magazines are not just aggregators of articles, papers and news releases but also make money running pay-to-post stories as well. In this case the 'story' being no doubt being provided by the books publisher.