I think almost every time I hear "European women", it ends up being about Polish/Czech/Roumanian/... women.
Because that is the geographical area of women this, again, is about.
I gather that a lot of guys from the US consider Sweden/Denmark an entity on it's own, UK to still be the backyard of America, and Italy/Spain/... to be a weirdly distant latino colony?
And yes, they do tend to have a very frank and direct approach towards men. If you only like to be the hunter on the prowl for women, you might actually feel threatened around those parts
However, as always, not every one of them is like this.