Because the nations of Europe established relations with the PRC early on--most of them recognized the PRC as soon as it had political control of the mainland--all of them basically accepted the PRC position that our nation the ROC doesn't exist but is rather just a province of China.
因為歐洲各國和中共很早就建立外交關係，幾乎中共政權一成立，大部分西歐國家就承認它了，他們大概都接受，「中華民國不存在，台灣是大陸的一省」這種說法。