Under FAA rules you can be PIC under EASA you cannot.
You’re doing well practicing IFR under the hood with a safety pilot but you can only log the PIC time one way:
FAA compliant or EASA compliant.
Europa-land doesn’t know or understand the “safety pilot” part.
Even under FAA it was never intended as a time building excercise.
The rule has been abused as “we can both log PIC”, one for looking out and being responsible and the other as “manipulating the controls”.
Pick your poison.
I always recommended my European students to differentiate in their logbook between FAA and EASA PIC.
As an example under FAA your entire instrument rating can be logged PIC and dual received as you’re rated in the airplane.
Under EASA you could log the FAA IR as dual received only.
Hence a European student that came to the USA for a 0-CPL would have 180-200 hrs PIC under FAA and only 100 hrs EASA PIC.