Europe has ruled that organisms with genes edited with Crispr-Cas9 are considered "genetically modified".

It would be absurd to deny this. The real question is what rules should apply to them.

Perhaps that should depend on what the modification does. A modification for use with a pesticide is potentially dangerous because pesticides are often dangerous. A patented gene is legally dangerous. A variety that could outcompete the wild type is evolutionarily dangerous.