some other parts of the world

Um, English-speaking parts?

But in fact the B-M-D structure has been largely adopted. The problem seems to be that there's no guarantee that my university will recognize that your university's Master's is equivalent to mine, and vice versa.

Metatone wrote:

[T]he reasoning was that the changes envisioned would also make the new European standard more in line with some other parts of the world

Oh, boy! I doubt that there has been any «reasoning» at all, at least on the German side. And if there has been a model, it was the American. Surely a ridiculous endeavour, as the European and the American school systems are very different, but who cares?
Generally, the political profession is interested in the ado, and nothing else. And, of course, Europe still sells in the editorials. That is sometimes (inexactly) called input orientation.
There is a parallel here to Jérôme's recent characterisation of financialization, where future earnings are made into a financial instrument; in a similar way politics is about «programs». In both cases, as soon as it is sold, it is forgotten.
The rest is kicking around the recalcitrant populace, administration etc.