Western Europe

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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

Denmark’s Carlsberg said Thursday that its own beer volumes slid over the most recent quarter, hit by a tough Chinese market, as well as weakness in Western Europe, but that soft-drinks sales saw rapid growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Even in regions such as Western Europe and Asia/Oceania that span some bigger football markets, average pay is not significantly higher than national minimum wage levels.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Western Europe has just recorded its hottest summer on record -- with some 540,000 hectares going up in smoke across the European Union between mid-June and early September.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

“Right now the price of wheat in Western Europe is rising almost every week, while in Ukraine there has been no price increase at all,” Krasnoshchok said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

I think rather that it came in response to a middle-class crisis of faith in North America and Western Europe.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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