Lag, animation issues etc. has now been moved to accepted bugs. Hopefully we can expect EU servers in near future.
More information here http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...s-everybody%29

And video about lag, responsiveness etc. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3leMnErroL0

There is already open thread about this issue - European Datacentre http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-datacenter%21