If I had your choices and family on the continent I would have a home in finland, visit and shoot in Germany, and have a smmer place on an island in Greece.
It would be difficult to get into Finland, I imagine, and I suspect they are clannish.
I like Slovakia, small country, smack dab in the middle of Europe, fairly Conservative. And of course pretty much hate Communists from their time in the former Communist Czechoslovakia.