For instance, since you brought up energy, even recently it was feared that Europe will have trouble this winter but now they have a glut: https://www.wsj.com/articles/europe-once-fearing-gas-rationi...
There are also long term and short term problems that warrant different strategies.
Some problems are important to solve but not urgent, while others are both.
Newspapers can say whatever, the reality on the ground is that energy prices have gone up 5-10x in the past year.
Some problems are not even worth mentioning before the big ones are solved. Sometimes you have to hone all your energy to solve the big problems and worry about the small ones later. Priorities and such.
As far as I see the EU govt is more interested in image than actual solutions. Taking on Apple and winning looks sexier than fixing the very unsexy problem of energy or inflation.
And fixing the anticompetitiveness of Apple at once. Efficiency!