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No, they can't as far as I get it. The american cloud act entitles US law enforcement to serve orders to US companies and their foreign branches. So, if you are american with a company in the EU, the important part is that you are an american, not that the company is in a foreign jurisdiction.

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Yes, specifically the CLOUD (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data) Act, which was enacted following a case in 2014 where Microsoft refused to hand over emails stored in the EU (Ireland, in that case) on foot of a domestic US warrant.

The CLOUD Act expressly brings data stored by US-based companies anywhere in the world under the purview of US warrants and subpoenas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

Perhaps Google could license a third party in the EU to host analytics for EU customers?

This is an option. I saw somewhere a news that they might license the entire GCloud to a French provider but I can't remember where and when.

You're remembering this announcement from last fall: https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/group/investors/press_release...

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