--hosted-mender option does not work for account hosted on EU hosted Mender

Hi everyone!

Setting up mender-client using --hosted-mender option passed to mender-setup does not work for account hosted on the EU mender server https://eu.hosted.mender.io/. The account cannot be found.
As a workaround I provided the --server-urlhttps://eu.hosted.mender.io” manually. However, later I was asked to provide the path to the server certificate which I just left blank which means the integrity of artifacts is most likely not checked. I think if --hosted-mender option worked the security and certificates would be setup automatically.

Mender software installed:

ii  mender-auth                             5.1.0-1+debian+trixie                amd64        Mender auth
ii  mender-client-version-inventory-script  6.0.0-1+debian+trixie                all          Mender client version inventory script
ii  mender-client4                          5.1.0-1+debian+trixie                amd64        Mender client
ii  mender-flash                            1.1.0-1+debian+trixie                amd64        Mender Flash is an utility to flash block devices used by the Mender Client
ii  mender-setup                            1.0.3-1+debian+trixie                amd64        Mender Setup is a standalone tool to configure the Mender Client. It writes the
ii  mender-snapshot                         1.0.0-1+debian+trixie                amd64        Mender Snapshot is a standalone tool to create a snapshot of the
ii  mender-update                           5.1.0-1+debian+trixie                amd64        Mender update

I would like to know whether this behavoir is expected? And what is the recommended way to setup security so that artifacts are verified before being applied?

Thanks for any help!