Brussels, Belgium - Buildings of European Community from air - postcard c.1980s

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• Picture / Image:  Bruxelles / Brussel - Buildings of the European Community / Les batiments de la Communaute Europienne / De gebowen des Euopropese Gemeenschap
• Publisher:  Thill, Bruxelles
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Brussels serves as capital of the European Union, hosting the major political institutions of the Union.^[8] The EU has not declared a capital formally, though the Treaty of Amsterdam formally gives Brussels the seat of the European Commission (the executive/government branch) and the Council of the European Union (a legislative institution made up from executives of member states).^[41][42] It locates the formal seat of European Parliament in the French city of Strasbourg, where votes take place with the Council on the proposals made by the Commission. However meetings of political groups and committee groups are formally given to Brussels along with a set number of plenary sessions. Three quarters of Parliament now takes place at its Brussels hemicycle.^[43] Between 2002 and 2004, the European Council also fixed its seat in the city.^[44]

Brussels, along with Luxembourg and Strasbourg, began to host institutions in 1957, soon becoming the centre of activities as the Commission and Council based their activities in what has become the ""European Quarter"".^[41] Early building in Brussels was sporadic and uncontrolled with little planning, the current major buildings are the Berlaymont building of the Commission, symbolic of the quarter as a whole, the Justus Lipsius building of the Council and the Espace Léopold of Parliament.^[42] Today the presence has increased considerably with the Commission alone occupying 865,000 m² within the ""European Quarter"" in the east of the city (a quarter of the total office space in Brussels^[8]). The concentration and density has caused concern that the presence of the institutions has caused a ""ghetto effect"" in that part of the city.^[45] However the presence has contributed significantly to the importance of Brussels as an international centre.^[38]

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: rest of the world

sub-theme=europe

county/ country=belgium

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period=1945 - present

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