I can only speculate, just like you, but I think it has to do with Europe very recent history, in particular on the communist side of the iron curtain (think St

I can only speculate, just like you, but I think it has to do with Europe very recent history, in particular on the communist side of the iron curtain (think Stasi, etc.). Half of Europe knows first hand what it is to live in a repressive surveillance state, and the other half has witnessed it.