> Another example: in 2009 light bulbs were banned in the EU

For the sake of anyone confused by this, incandescent lightbulbs, and even then a phase-out — Halogen was 2018 according to Wikipedia, but this news doesn't seem to have reached my local hardware store in Berlin: https://www.obi.de/search/halogen/

Plenty of light bulbs for sale, they're just different than the ones I had as a kid.