Deletion of Modern empires' loss of European territory

Comment: to List of sovereign states in Europe by date of achieving sovereignty. The current name is wrong and confusing, but the article itself is actually a useful list of all european nations, their independance date and how it was achieved. The , ,  and  accusations made by the nominator are completely baseless, causing me to question whether he read past the lead sentence before nominating
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:SYN||WP:OR||WP:NPOV||WP:recentism)