how come some products marked not majority EU owned have the EU flag?

The EU flag is used here for the whole Europe (see the top-right corner), but “not majority EU owned” is specifically looking at the EU, which is very confusing. So Vivaldi being Norwegian and Canonical being British stick out.

It’s very common for German news sites as well, but then not for the Swedish ones. I think news sites in some countries have an exemption?

I assume you’re taking a big hit salary-wise (a trade-off I would make, for the record).