Western Europe

Cultural  

1. Those nations in Europe that were not part of the Eastern Bloc, or more specifically, those nations allied with the United States in NATO (except Turkey). Neutral or nonaligned nations such as Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, and Spain, though western European in terms of geography, are not usually meant when the term “Western Europe” is used as the opposite for terms such as “Eastern Europe,” “the Eastern Bloc,” or “communist Europe.”

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Western Europe

Herzen’s character sketches and aperçus amount to an intellectual and political history of Russia and Western Europe in the first two-thirds of the 19th century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Favorable public opinion has long undergirded close U.S. ties with its traditional allies in Western Europe, East Asia and Canada.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

By moving heat around the planet, it strongly influences the global climate and helps maintain the relatively mild conditions found in Western Europe.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

The Gravelines nuclear power plant, near the northern city of Dunkirk, is the largest in Western Europe, with six 900-megawatt reactors.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

In Paris and Western Europe, the story was “essentially a one-day sensation,” with the West German press handling it “as if it were in the Chicago gangster tradition.”

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey