How much help did Nokia have from the EU?? Sure it was very Finnish, but not clear the EU helped. And it wasn't MS, it was Nokia itself in the face of Apple. I worked at Nokia and saw it first hand.
It's hard to remember now, but Nokia exploded in the consumer market at a time when mobile phones were still niche in the US.
The US was (as always) late to the party, arrived in force, drove everyone else away, then claimed it was their party all along.