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

It was the warmest June ever recorded in Western Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

The fierce fires ravaging parts of France and Spain are the result of forests and vegetation becoming more flammable because of drought and a series of record-breaking heatwaves that have hit Western Europe since May.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

Last month, surface air temperatures in Western Europe ran around 3 degrees Celsius above the 1991-2020 average, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Most existing research on dementia prevention has come from high income countries, including the United States and nations in Western Europe.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

The Troper is not unique, though: between about 650 and 1000, an ad hoc system of small, above-the-text markings became more common in chant books all over Western Europe.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall