EU govs siding with google in this move would be catastrophically stupid, it's equivalent to ceding their digital sovereignty to the US. All it would take to knee-cap Europe is for the US to command google to suspend all european developers' accounts, and suddenly Europe is fucked. No banking apps, no government services, no nothing.
The only rational step for the EU is to support open everything: Open Software, Open Hardware, Open platforms, etc...
Beggars can't be choosers. Until they pony up the cache to fork android, they're beholden to the US.
I agree, but the EU is currently doing exactly the wrong thing and doubling down on forcing their citizens into the American duopoly.