The cookie thing was a disaster. The intention was good, but not the outcome. Other than that, I have trust in our government and in extension EU. They are not trying to regulate "science". We don't have an issue with corruption.
Indeed the cookies law was horrible.
All it did was make websites constantly pop a message over the content i actually want to see. Making it worse that closing that message is different on every website... WHY?! Web browsers had a checkbox for turning off cookies for decades before the law even came around. If you don't want cookies then turn them off in there!
But this USB-C thing i do support. Pretty much all phone manufacturers are already using USB-C (Except the fruit flavored special snowflake), so we are going to have USB-C cables laying around everywhere. Might as well make those cables and chargers more useful.
The law is specific on portable devices, not everything USB. So this does not mean that USB HUBs or desktop printers have to use USB-C. Nor does it seam to toss in laptops (some of those need more juice than USB-C can give).
More curious if they will get apple to follow it. They already tried to make Apple use microUSB. This was back when the horrible chunky 30 pin connector was still used. They instead made lightning. This new port has much the same capabilities as a microUSB except that it is reversible (its also only USB 2.0 480Mbit). But then again USB-C did not exist back then, and Apples move is probably what promoted USB to come up with a reversible connector too.
How capabilities of USB-C are presented to the user is a different shitshow tho. It only has to support USB 2.0, anything else is optional (USB 3.0, 20Gbit, DisplayPort, Thunderbolt...etc) and will simply not work if both devices don't implement the same secondary optional feature.(Nor is this marked in any way next to the port, it simply has a generic USB logo)