Western Europe

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 ��ܰ��Ǳ��.”

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Regarded as the largest city in western Europe without a mass transit system, Leeds has tried and failed over decades to devise and implement an efficient way to keep its residents mobile.

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With American appetites for “self-defense” weapons like handguns growing in the turbulent ’60s, these entrepreneurs connected with manufacturers throughout Western Europe to turn leftover wartime scrap metal into cheap and dangerous weapons for the insatiable U.S. market.

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England and Wales has one of the highest prison population rates in western Europe.

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The key to Simion's success in the first round was his extraordinary win among diaspora voters in Western Europe, including in the UK.

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Western Europe welcomes liberty, democracy and an end to the Nazi threat.

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