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Rather than having country qualification tournaments (like the UK champs) and arbitrary city/country allocations of spots, you would have to get your team to one of four qualifying tournaments (in N, E, S and W Europe). The podium teams (probably down to 8th place or so) from these four tournaments would then be asked to come to the Euros, with the other spots being nabbed by teams during a prelim tourney (like Berlin).
You could even compete at each of the four tournaments (or not) to increase your chances, but if you won more than 1 spot at the Euros it would be passed down to the next best team, etc (managed by the European body with complete transparency of the decision-making process).
This would allow you to team up with anyone (including internationally mixed teams) and does away with any nationality/origin confusion. I also believe that Americans, etc, should be welcomed to the event (if they can afford the flights). We are essentially a big muddle of individuals anyway and bike polo is not going to be supported/recognised nationally any time soon, so why not skip that step and organise a European wide solution straight away?