Western Europe

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Johannes Vermeer (1662)
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Region of Europe that may be defined in various ways:

  1. the region whose member states were never Warsaw Pact or CMEA member states;
  2. the region whose member states were early (i.e., 1995 or earlier) members of the EU) or members of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA)
  3. the region whose members were imperial powers of the Trans-European Project

The first and second effectively exclude the Communist nations of Europe, either as a military alliance or as command economies; the third designates the European portion of the TEP. Scandinavian nations did not have overseas empires, except for Greenland and Iceland (sovereign 1918); so definition 3 has flaws, since they were definitely integral members of the TEP. Moreover, Austria's status is ambiguous since it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; it is included in Western Europe since it was the core state, and was long integral to the West.

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