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To start Europe should have secure phones made in EU.
Doesn't switching instant messaging services count as a start? Switching hardware is far harder than switching software.
Also, local messaging systems also determine where your traffic goes and who controls that data. If you have a french messaging service with data centers in france routing traffic between people in France, you are in a far better shape.
When Real-Time Bidding allows foreign states and non-state actors to obtain compromising sensitive personal data about key European personnel and leaders to get location data, time-stamps, websites and apps activities; switching to a local messaging service appears to be a weak patch. You can get an overview of the actual situation here : https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/europes-hidden-security-crisis/
It's not a patch. It's eliminating an attack vector, and the one which is more pervasive and easier to exploit.
Security-minded people pay far more attention to what software you run than what hardware you have.
You didn't read the article apparently.