In the age of digital communications, carrying around a fully functional network-connected eavesdropping device in one’s pockets and giant international pedophilia honeypots, the nations specialized in eavesdropping digital communications and hacking smartphones, as well as being were the companies making the core software of said smartphones are base and controlling the pedophilia honeypots - the United States and Israel - probably have giant amounts of high quality kompromat on most major European (both EU and national) politicians, as they’ve been able to gather that for over a decade so even top politicians in top positions were they’re protected by the counter-intelligence agencies of those countries could have been caught long ago when they were just climbing to were they are and didn’t yet have such protections.

Certainly that neatly explains why what European politicians are doing towards both those nations is totally out of alignment with what the European public opinion wants - they don’t want the recordings made of them having sex with children or eavesdropped evidence of crimes to come out if they don’t obbey those holding that material.