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Brussels (French: Bruxelles ⓘ or ⓘ; Dutch: Brussel ⓘ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (French: Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Dutch: Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.
- City of Brussels
Website. www.brussels.be. The City of Brussels [a] is the...
- Brussels-North Railway Station
Brussels-North railway station (French: Gare de...
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- Brussels-South Railway Station
Brussels-South is one of over a dozen railway stations in...
- Royal Museums of Art and History
The Royal Museums of Art and History (RMAH) (French: Musées...
- Woluwe-Saint-Lambert
Woluwe-Saint-Lambert (French pronunciation: [wolywe sɛ̃...
- Belgium
Belgium, [A] officially the Kingdom of Belgium, [B] is a...
- City of Brussels
- History
- Status
- European Quarter
- Demography and Economic Impact
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Birth of the European Communities
In 1951, the leaders of six European countries (Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, France, Italy and West Germany) signed the Treaty of Paris, which created the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), and with this new community came the first institutions: the High Authority, Council of Ministers, Court of Justice and Common Assembly. A number of cities were considered, and Brussels would have been accepted as a compromise, but the Belgian Government put all its effort into backing Liège (W...
Installation in Brussels and early development
Brussels missed out in its bid for a single seat due to a weak campaign from the Belgian Government in negotiations. The government eventually pushed its campaign and started large-scale construction, renting office space in the east of the city for use by the institutions. On 11 February 1958, the six member states'governments concluded an unofficial agreement on the setting-up of community offices. On the principle that it would take two years after a final agreement to prepare the appropri...
Merger Treaty: political and town-planning status quo
The 1965 Merger Treatywas seen as an appropriate moment to finally resolve the issue; the separate Commissions and Councils were to be merged. Luxembourg, concerned about losing the High Authority, proposed a split between Brussels and Luxembourg. The Commission and Council were to be located in Brussels, with Luxembourg keeping the Court and Parliamentary Assembly, together with a few of the Commission's departments. This was largely welcomed by the member states, but opposed by France, not...
The Commission employs 25,000 people and the Parliament employs about 6,000 people. Because of this concentration, Brussels is a preferred location for any move towards a single seat for Parliament. Despite it not formally being the "capital" of the EU, some commentators see the fact that Brussels enticed an increasing number of the Parliament's se...
Most of the European Union's Brussels-based institutions are located within its European Quarter (French: Quartier Européen; Dutch: Europese Wijk), which is the unofficial name of the area corresponding to the approximate triangle between Brussels Park, Cinquantenaire Park and Leopold Park (with the European Parliament's hemicycle extending into th...
The EU's presence in Brussels has created significant social and economic impact. Jean-Luc Vanraes[nl], member of the Brussels' Parliamentresponsible for the city's external relations, goes as far to say the prosperity of Brussels "is a consequence of the European presence". As well as the institutions themselves, large companies are drawn to the c...
Rebuilding
In September 2007, then-Commissioner for Administrative Affairs, Siim Kallas, together with then-Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region, Charles Picqué, unveiled plans for rebuilding the district. It would involve new buildings (220,000 m2(2,368,060 sq ft) of new office space) but also more efficient use of existing space. This is primarily through replacing numerous smaller buildings with fewer, larger, buildings. In March 2009, a French-Belgian-British team led by the French arch...
Further quarters
The concentration of offices in the European Quarter has led to increase real estate prices due to the increased demand and reduced space. In response to this problem, the Commission has, since 2004, begun decentralising across the city to areas such as the Avenue de Beaulieu/Beaulieulaan in Auderghem and the Rue de Genève/Genevestraat in Evere. This has reduced price increases but it is still one of the most expensive areas in the city (€295/m2, compared to €196/m2 on average).Neither the Pa...
Political status
Belgium operates a complex federal system and is divided into three regions, with the Brussels-Capital Region being an independent region, alongside Flanders and Wallonia. The regions are mostly responsible for the economy, mobility and other territory-related matters. Belgium is also divided into three communities: the Flemish Community, the French Community and the German-speaking Community. These communities are responsible for language-related matters such as culture or education. Brussel...
Bibliography
1. Demey, Thierry (2007). Brussels, capital of Europe. S. Strange (trans.). Brussels: Badeaux. ISBN 978-2-9600414-2-2. 2. Dotti, 2013 "Update of the Economic Impact of the European and International Institutions on the Brussels-Capital Region. https://dial.uclouvain.be/downloader/downloader.php?pid=boreal:179693&datastream=PDF_01
(in French) Le Plan de Développement International de Bruxelles(in French) bruxelles.irisnet.be or (in Dutch) brussel.irisnet.be[permanent dead link]: Future plans for the European Quarter, Brussels-Capital RegionPeople also ask
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Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.
Brussels (French: Bruxelles, Dutch: Brussel, German: Brüssel) is the capital city of Belgium and the European Union. In 2007, 145,917 people lived there. But the area around it, known as the Brussels-Capital Region, had 1,031,215 people (which makes it the largest city area in Belgium).
Population pyramid of Brussels in 2022. Population. 1,222,657 (2022) Growth rate. 0.22% (2021) Fertility rate. 1.7 children per woman (2019) The demographics of Brussels are monitored by Statistics Belgium. Brussels population is currently 1,222,657 as of 2022.
