Valencia in Spain, Bordeaux in France, and Brussels in Belgium are also cost-effective cities with unique attractions for visitors. Western Europe, known for its rich history, diverse cultures ...

Read the full findings from this year’s liveability index here. EUROPEANS HAVE it pretty good. Their cities, especially in the western half of the continent, are in general splendid places to live.

New records have been set as temperatures topped 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) across much of Spain and Portugal Wednesday amid a persistent heat wave across western Europe.

Berlin and other Western European cities. The main reason for the difference: Britain, France, the Netherlands and Germany are all home to large Muslim communities that identify with the ...

Instead the picture across the majority of central, northern, and western Europe showed that cities were getting denser. Populations were growing, but most of these people weren’t moving into ...

And in recent years, major Western European cities have grappled with tensions that seem like a burden in the past in America: widespread rioting in Paris in 2005 and in London in 2011 ...

But much of the continent is steep in a less enjoyable sense, too. Cities in western Europe are among the biggest climbers in this year’s global cost-of-living index by EIU, our sister company.