.de actually has some tight requirements on it e.g. you need to include an "Impressum" on any hosted sites that states the name and address of a person responsible for the website

Every site targeting the German market has to do that, not just .de

And if you're a company you already have to publish a contact for legal matters anyway.

The only situation where an imprint doesn't already exist are scammers and personal sites, and personal sites don't need an imprint (if you make money with ads, it's not personal).

For English words that would work I guess. Here in EU a .de would also obviously point to something German which wouldn't be the intention.

It also wouldn’t be bad either – .de is even here in the EU considered a more trustworthy domain.

Personally I have my main stuff all on .de, my short domains on .eu, and then for certain projects purpose-specific domains on .info

Why even support EU users though with all the GDPR overhead? Unless you are a multinational who doesnt care about GDPR overheads, best not to target the EU market isnt it?

I'm in Brussels, right in the belly of the beast!