The EU is not as altruistic as it seems, a lot of good looking policies are backed up by bad intentions.

Not having the possibility of a 3rd party app store means that you can never have an app store in the EU, where the 30% stays in the EU.

I also don't believe that the EU is doing a great job, the cookie law didn't accomplish anything other than force companies to pay monthly for a cookie banner service and waste millions. GDPR failed, it just created legal black holes and it's now fine to transfer data to the US, rendering the whole thing ineffective.

I'm an EU citizen and I'm not sure if the EU would have been so keen on USB-C if Apple would have been a company in the EU. This talk about saving the environment fades away at the first sign of economical inconvenience.