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Europeanization

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[yoor-uh-pee-uhn-uh-zay-shuhn] / ˌjʊər əˌpi ən əˈzeɪ ʃən /

noun

  1. the act or process of making or becoming European in form or character.


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“This kind of sanitization and Europeanization has gone a lot further in Meloni’s case than in Le Pen’s,” Scazzieri said.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2022

But in language and in politics, Ukrainization and Europeanization soon took an upper hand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2022

Later Georgian intellectuals pushed back against this, arguing that Russia in fact prevented Georgia’s Europeanization, or that Georgia should identify with the East rather than with Europe.

From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2017

"This is like the Europeanization of politics, where you can have a prime minister call an election at any time," Lee said.

From Reuters ● Aug. 18, 2011

Unamuno is constantly attacking sturdily those who clamor for the modernization, Europeanization of Spanish life and Spanish thought: he is the counterpoise to the northward-yearning apostles of Giner de los Ríos.

From Rosinante to the Road Again by John Dos Passos

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