If they indeed continue to be restrictive when it comes to crypto, what do you think could be the consequences especially when a lot of other countries are openly embracing bitcoin? Do you think that EU is doing the right thing or will they just go back on their words after seeing other countries get ahead with bitcoin?
Why EU wants unecassary bad image because in times like these when every country is adopting crypto, using blockchain technology and using it for their payments methods in different ways, if EU will decide to oppose BTC then people in EU won't give a F about their rules and they will explicitly use it under any conditions. These rules won't be followed if they become too strict about them that's not how governments and policies work.
To do that they have to start a chain of small restrictions and once they reach a point they will do it, speaking of monero coin, it is not liked by any government due to its privacy features. They don't like it at all and that's why most of the exchanges has delisted it.
EU will never ban BTC but they will go after privacy tools like Monero and other platforms to increase the centralization and to increase the taxation system so they could earn more from crypot users.