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Comment by lagolinguini | Hacker News Reader

why?

Because the UK is in Europe.

Makes as much sense as a Japanese company referring repeteadly to employees in New York and/or the United States.

The UK and EU would be better? From a business perspective, Europe and EU are the same thing, and the UK is not part of the EU anymore.

> Europe and EU are the same thing

Uwot. A significant chunk of Europe is not in the European Union.

The American perspective is that that are. Many would hard pressed to say which were in the EU and which were not.

I'm pretty sure that most Americans don't know or care about what the EU is, but they've heard of the UK, Italy, Poland, etc., and would readily tell you that the UK (they would probably call it 'England') is in Europe and that Europe is a continent, not a bureaucracy. Foreign bureaucracies are just uninteresting to outsiders, whereas people go visit Rome, Venice, London, etc.

From a business perspective, they seem to consider that the UK is part of Europe:

https://plaid.com/blog/plaid-hires-head-of-europe/

Their site mentions offices in London and Amsterdam. Maybe UK means London and Europe means Amsterdam?

(Or maybe they have some employees elsewhere in Europe - they offer their services in several countries... including another non-EU country: Norway.)

technically you wanted "New York and or North Americans"... if you're trying to be pedantic about things you gotta go full pedantic.

The UK is not a city in Europe.

Europe in this sense seems to refer to the union, not the continent.

They probably should've called it the EU, then. "Europe" refers to the continent--the geographical landmass that the UK is definitely a part of.

the UK is not, politically, part of Europe (as in the EU) anymore, even if it is part of the geographic (non-political) region known as Europe.

It's more like saying Puerto Rico and The United States

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