[xigoi]

Those are put there by the websites, not the EU.

[multimoon]

They are put there by websites in reaction to the poorly thought out and executed EU regulations, which is par for the course for the EU.

The official EU website has the same popup asking about required or optional (read: tracking) cookies that every website does.

Clearly this isn’t the websites fault if the EU’s own website is displaying the same pointless banner to comply with their poorly executed regulation.