Western Europe

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.”

Example Sentences

Outside the United States and Western Europe, however, the picture is decidedly mixed.

From The Daily Beast

It is a controlled substance in the U.S., Canada, and much of Western Europe, as well as China.

From The Daily Beast

But if the answer does not lie in the balance of the “third way” of Western Europe, where does it lie?

From The Daily Beast

In Western Europe, the ADL charted anti-Semitism at 24 percent and in Eastern Europe at 34 percent.

From The Daily Beast

But as he worked on the epidemic locally in Amsterdam and Western Europe, Lange also was thinking globally.

From The Daily Beast

The fact is that the inhabitants of Ireland, like the inhabitants of all other countries in Western Europe, are of mixed origin.

From Project Gutenberg

There is probably no part of Western Europe where land is now held by the descendants of the aboriginal inhabitants.

From Project Gutenberg

It was the first abbey in Normandy to open the door of learning to the young and inquiring minds of Western Europe.

From Project Gutenberg

Under him Rome became the political as well as the religious centre of Western Europe.

From Project Gutenberg

England alone could furnish a centre to the reformed communions of Western Europe.

From Project Gutenberg