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EU's leadership doesn't have much power that way, the EU is a thin layer on the countries.

In the US the federal government has much more power but nobody is attributing the term good fortunes of the AI industry to the recent federal policy there. (There's long term stuff that does make a difference in hoovering up the global R&D talent and concentrating capital, but that's a different kettle)

EU budget is about 1% of the GDP of the countries (from https://commission.europa.eu/topics/budget_en)

There's very little betting on any particular AI models going on by the commission/EP. The Pleias article claims a 2020 eurocrat whitepaper determined how things go, but that's fantastical.