The economist is a shit paper. What do you expect.
Actually it looks situated way more western than Britain and Norway in the graph.
Yea, the classification is a remnant of cold war, apparently. During the cold war NATO members (european ones) were the “western bloc” i.e. Western Europe and eastern bloc (including Poland – here come the downvotes) countries were Eastern Europe.
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The economist is a shit paper. What do you expect.
Actually it looks situated way more western than Britain and Norway in the graph.
Yea, the classification is a remnant of cold war, apparently. During the cold war NATO members (european ones) were the “western bloc” i.e. Western Europe and eastern bloc (including Poland – here come the downvotes) countries were Eastern Europe.