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What are you talking about?
Is there a law of nature that you can only refer to origins in terms of countries.
A Finnish alternative is, nyt extension, a European alternative.
No one says that Samsung or Huawei phones are Asian alternatives to iPhone.
In all practical ways Jolla is as foreign to Romanian or French person as Apple is, because their domestic officials and institutions have zero control over it the same way they have zero control over Apple.
Unless, of course, they are blinded by some big yet empty words of European unity, as many here are.
When you go out to eat your friends might express the desire to eat Asian food - that doesn't descrikinate between Japanese, Taiwanese, or Thai food.
You just prove that European and Asian has completely different connotations, even if they both has seemingly geographical denotation. First is also used in political context, whereas second isn't. First is used when discussing alternative solutions to US-owned tech and services, and second is not.
No one goes out saying that Pad Thai is Asian alternative to freaking spaghetti, and people living across Asia should eat Pad Thai to get some food sovereignty.
Without that, we have a situation where almost every bank tries to shove their stupid android app in your face so they can more easily track you. They also force you to their authentication mechanisms, instead of using already working ones. There are no APIs that are usable, only if you have $$$$$. They'll just ignore you if you're a regular client and want to download your data automatically via a reasonable mechanism, etc.
If only banks can write apps and have closed API, they will
It is a very misleading title, indeed.
Edit: Sorry you got flagged to death. You should not post blasphemous comments ;)
The main issue is that "Europe" is not able to make a phone. They have the choice between American and Chinese at large (mainland and Taiwan) platforms, including cellular stacks, and then most likely manufacturing in mainland China and/or via contractors like Foxconn (also Chinese sphere as from Taiwan).
So indeed, the "full stack" claim here is to be taken in the narrowest sense possible, i.e. the apps software on top of the Linux kernel (and still from other comments it seems they also use Android drivers).