To avoid dealing with EASA?
It is interesting that there are pretty significant differences between the European aviation agencies. My understanding is that the Germans, oddly enough, are closest to the pragmatic attitude of the FAA. Unlike the Brits, they're happy for you to operate on-condition and apart from the annual, the pilot can pretty much do all of the maintenance, etc. They however require a full avionics check annually to release for IFR, which is costly. It means for instance that I will have to buy a new prop to get on G-reg, and if we're looking at that kind of trouble and cost, I might as well go N-reg while I'm at it. For now, I have asked the Germans for an exemption from the authorized recipient requirement - not having much hope, though.
My sense is that EASA is slowly changing attitude and start acknowledging the difference between a Piper Cub and Airbus 380 - but it's baby steps.
I can't really understand why EASA and FAA can't just agree that they're probably both thorough organisations who know what they're doing, so if something is FAA approved, it should be good to go in Europe and vice versa....but then again, I never made my money as a lawyer.