The EU has a huge variety of plugs and sockets, what people often call the EU plug are variation of the schuko[0] design. The standard EU plug is the Europlug[1

The EU has a huge variety of plugs and sockets, what people often call the EU plug are variation of the schuko[0] design. The standard EU plug is the Europlug[1] which is compatible with most (but not all) sockets in Europe and only handles low amperage. AFAIK Italy is the major outlier in having widespread sockets[2] that do not accept the Europlug [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuko [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europlug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europlug [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets#Italy_(Type_L) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets#Ita... the one on the left, rated for 16A.