No it’s not „just Germany“.
For all the people not in the EU: The EU is mostly controlled by Germany and France.
So if these two countries make a push towards banning cases this might become a thing in the whole EU.
And that’s not even talking about the NY lawsuit.
With all the changes to trading, the terminal and the changes to the SCM shows that Valve probably got a heads up about it.
That is no coincidence that all these things happen at the same time.
This might not happen in the next few months but I’m sure there will be a massive change how skins are acquired and traded (if they can be P2P traded at all).