How about buying a used one? I guess there should be plenty of them on the market which aren't really used anymore, so unless you have very specific needs, I don't see the need to produce and buy new ones.
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Does "European-built" mean a strict "manufactured in the EU" or do European brands in general count? In the latter case, Philips would obviously come to mind, co-inventors of the CD. They made quite high-quality CD players as far as I know. But I don't know where they were produced.
There's the Danish company Lyngdorf, who make the CD-2. It costs a whopping €2999,- though. NAD is Canadian and makes CD players around the €400 mark. If you consider Canada an honorary EU member that's an option ;)
I don't think that there is an european manufacturer for CD Players left in Europe. Such "end of life" technology will come from China and maybe there are some small european companies building custom cases for the standard mechanisms. But there are so many used CD players around, just buy one from an european seller and you're good. Or ask around, there are so many old players around that somebody will gift you their unused one
Unhelpful comment alert: If you want to collect music partly for the art, I recommend getting into vinyl!
I got my record player from a friend as she couldn't make it spin (literally only needed oil), and I found a great Sony amplifier and a pair of Danish loudspeakers in the trash. Admittedly that was lucky, but a lot of people will find some treasures in the attic or basement if they look for it. :)
To be more helpful, I suspect second hand is the way to go for quality CD players as well. :) And if your old CD player is bugging out, you could try cleaning it.
So far I have found one that's eu-made called CD Box S3 at
Looks pretty good, but this seems to be targeting those who already have a pretty extensive hi-fi set-up. So make sure you have what is needed to make it sing before buying!