[scrollaway]

Even if we apply your logic, Esperanto is still a bad choice. Interlingua would be a better one in a European context.

[akvadrako]

Interlingua is not a practical alternative. It hasn't been shown to have any real-world advantage over Esperanto and the number of speakers and material is orders of magnitude less.

For example, compare the Interlingua wikipedia to the Esperanto one.