If the EU wants to be able to not have to rely on US data they need to have a substantially more business friendly environment for nascent EU startups and heavily subsidize them. Right now the European software market is tiny and almost entirely legacy software.
I'm aware of the Marshall plan. Parent's comment could have been read as "continues to fund the EU" which I don't think is a thing other than the usual, trade, etc.
Thanks for sharing the link to the ECSC, it's been a while since I read about that. I wouldn't say though that the US founded the EU (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union), at least not in the literal sense of the word.
But this is no surprise since the US is basically the funder of the EU, they get what they want
That's very sad