CEV ranking is used to choose a participat at WC for 2nd time in a row. For CEV, European Champs are more important than other world events, so it looks a bit different than world ranking.
https://www.cev.eu/Rankings/Women.aspx
Btw. As Serbia is world champ and has already guaranteed place at WC, Italy should be qualified as 2nd best European team.
Edit: ok, I see, there is tie between rus and ita. Interesting...