Clearly they are just trying to rile up users against the EU.

Because they want to track people and they need consent for that.

I know the technical reason. I was contesting the GP's comment that most site display banner "Instead of complying". Most website needs basic tracking and there is nothing wrong in it.

We are just conditioned to see it without difference in basic tracking and tracking all your clicks across site and selling it to advertisers.

Because they use a commercial service (AT Internet) for analytics and visitor tracking as stated in their cookies policy and cookie inventory. This information is readily available through the cookie banner.