The EU country leaders are as representative as the US President. The real democracy would be letting the EU parlament vote.

No longer?
Was never!

If privacy is your topic, iPhones are out.
You could check /e/OS for example with Fairphone that includes parental control feature.
Your parents do not matter in this context and it would be shameful to use such features.

Avoid tracking apps and tracking in apps. Avoid big tech like Meta and use Signal instead. If your child is not willing to do without Tiktok, Insta and so on, you won’t prevent. You can only explain. Remember: Divice literacy is not media literacy

To clarify: eMail, web chats, gaming chats, Signal, Threema and so on are affected as well