turvarya,
You do realize that decentralization and the European social model (tax and redistribute) are incongruent?
Do you think the mainstream will give up their beloved social model to prevent an edict to use only approved AML compliant Bitcoin service providers? They will choose to destroy their tax collections?

Even Switzerland voted 74% against a 20% gold backed money in a referendum this week. The EU demographics are old and old people want their government guaranteed retirements.