Western Europe Multilingualism and the protection of regional and minority languages are recognized political goals in Western Europe today. The Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the Council of Europe's European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages set up a legal framework for language rights in Europe. Western Europe is one of the richest regions of the world. Germany has the highest GDP in Europe and the largest financial surplus of any country, Luxembourg has the world's highest GDP per capita, and the United Kingdom has the highest Net National Wealth of any European state. Switzerland
The Witch-Cult in Western Europe The Witch-Cult in Western Europe The Witch-Cult in Western Europe is a 1921 anthropological book by Margaret Murray, published at the height of success of "The Golden Bough" by anthropologist James George Frazer. For the book, university circles celebrated Margaret Murray as the expert on western witchcraft. For the period 1929-1968, she wrote the "Witchcraft" article in the successive editions of the "Encyclopædia Britannica". In 1962, "The Witch-Cult in Western Europe" was reprinted by Oxford University Press. Her theory, also known as the "witch-cult hypothesis" suggests that the things told about witches in Europe were in fact based on a