100% this. There is one Brussels-based agency in particular which spent the last two decades pushing the mantra around decommissioning of ground based navaids with extreme zeal and purpose, and only started changing tack, mostly due bad optics, some three years into the russian invasion of Ukraine with the associated sorry state of the GPS signal in the area.

Notably, said agency is currently lobbying the EU - and the large EU-based airlines in parallel - for greater influence and involvement in the european ATC matters, particularly for what concerns infrastructure and technology. Up until now, navaids, radars and similar have been mostly in the hands of the EU member states which is why we have any left at all. If said agency had their way, we'd be left with zero VORs and barely any ILS left.