In the USA they have 1st amendment, in the EU we don't have it so these things are not just about aiding law enforcement in the traditional sense - this is for Chinese-style censorship.
The EU has near equivalent rights to the 1st amendment under the charter of fundamental rights of the EU and the ECHR, with very specific exclusions and reasons to permit suspension - whereas in the USA those exclusions aren’t codified but decided by a court on an ad-hoc basis (defamation, incitement, true threats, obscenity, fraud, etc).
Basically, the EU gives you the rules up front and the USA decides after the fact.
