`  == West Europe vs. Western Europe ==  , perhaps you're used to the using the adjective westeuropäisch in German. I wish we spoke German, because it is much easier to understand the difference between what is correct or incorrect. To speak of English though, the overwhelming number of examples I've seen tend to have instances of ``Western European`` sooner than ``West European.`` If you look at work done on Wikipedia, you will see the majority of editors prefer the term ``Western European`` over ``West European.``   `