Static lines are not used here in the UK for the very good reason that
pilots tend to exit the glider wearing the parachute and walk away.

Slow learners, eh? ;-)

Don't know what the rules are in other European countries but I Germany, wearing a chute while in training is mandatory. Since a static line chute pulls the rip-chord for you, this is what we exclusively used in our trainers. I have seen two guys bail out of a L13 (wing came off) using static line chutes and both where fully deployed in a very short time after exiting! Each European-designed glider I know of has a hard-point to attach the static line to. Said hard point is marked in red.