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Most everybody does not include Italy in "Western" Europe. Italy is "South Europe", along with Spain, Portugal, Greece etc. Heck, even the European Commission d
by roel_v 11y ago
Most everybody does not include Italy in "Western" Europe. Italy is "South Europe", along with Spain, Portugal, Greece etc. Heck, even the European Commission divides Europe into West (fr, be, nl, uk, de), North (se, no, fi, baltics), South (es, it, pt, gr, cy) and East (the rest) in many of their policy studies. I have never been involved in any policy work where Italy was considered 'Western Europe' (part of 'the West', yes, but that's from a global perspective).
- register 11y agoWestern Europe as per Wikipedia definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Europe
- coldtea 11y agoThere are multiple definitions. Western is not merely a geographic term. DDR wasn't a part of Western Europe either, and it was located pretty west. Already we were discussing here the original article, which used a more restrictive definition -- and explained that.