I'm from France, and when browsing, I often get paywalled when I reject all non-essential cookies. The CNIL (who is in charge of the application of GDPR) ruled that this was compliant with GDPR as long as another website was offering an alternative without cookies[1].
Are there similar rulings in other EU states?
1: https://www.cnil.fr/fr/cookie-walls-la-cnil-publie-des-premi... (in french, sorry)