Once again, Comrade F, the article does not say what you say it says.
It gives a pile of stats on veggie trends in the market – you know, that pillar of capitalism and individualism – and throws in a link to a report of 24 MEP’s (out of ~750) publishing an open letter calling for a reduction of animal product consumption.
As you yourself said, vegetarianism or moderate consumption of animal products is not the same as veganism. Oh, unless it happens in the EU, in which case it’s 100% certified Communism. 
Second article: Furious row! Disarray! Run for your bunker! 
What actually happened? Almost no information on that in the article, which turns out to be a hyped up summary of a Telegraph article about discord in Merkel’s government – obviously not scary enough for Express readers – and though the source article is behind a paywall, it seems the fuss was over someone trying to get “official functions” to serve only vegetarian (remember vegetarian =/= vegan) food. Presumably those would be government functions, i.e. paid for with tax money. So it’s like banning soft drinks in public school vending machines – a horrible assault on the freedom of soft drink companies, I know 
– but doesn’t actually ban anything outside of the government sphere, and in this case it apparently wasn’t even a real internal ban at all.
So in other words, nope.
As for Andrew’s article…
EU urged to adopt meat tax to tackle climate emergency
…the passive voice there means someone other than the EU is doing the urging. And again, it’s not talking about veganism. And again, it’s not talking about a ban.