alt Hacker NewsEU is schizophrenic enough that it often produces very conflicting directions, opinions and policies.
One thing EU loves is regulation though, so I expect they will introduce preemptive regulations to enforce strict ID verification as well as regulations to fine big companies for breaching user privacy with strict ID verification policies.
ID verification for app stores already discussed and voted behind closed-doors trilogue meetings, unelected governments like darkness:
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/end-of-chat-control-eu-parl...
"Next up in the ongoing trilogue, lawmakers will negotiate whether messenger and chat services, as well as app stores, will be legally obliged to implement age verification."