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	Brussels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Brussels (Dutch: Brussel, French: Bruxelles, German: Brüssel) is the capital of Belgium and is considered by many to be the headquarters of the European Union, as two of its three main institutions have their headquarters in the city.
		Brussels is first of all a city located in the centre of Belgium and its capital, but it sometimes also refers to the largest municipality of the Brussels-Capital Region.
		Brussels is served by Brussels National Airport, located in the municipality of Zaventem, and by Brussels South Airport, located near Charleroi, some 80km from Brussels.
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Brussels (2073 words)

	Brussels - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Brussels is first of all a city located in the middle of Belgium and its capital, but it sometimes also refers to the largest municipality of the Brussels-Capital Region.
		Brussels is also the capital of the French Community of Belgium (Communauté française Wallonie-Bruxelles in French) and of Flanders; all Flemish capital institutions are established there: Flemish Parliament, Flemish governement and its administration.
		Brussels is served by Brussels International Airport, located in the municipality of Zaventem, and by Brussels South Airport, located near Charleroi.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Brussels (1098 words)

	Brussels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brussels (Dutch: Brussel, French: Bruxelles, German: Brüssel) is the capital of Belgium and is considered by many to be the headquarters of the European Union, as two of its four main institutions have their headquarters in the city.
		Brussels is also the capital of Flanders and of the French Community of Belgium (Communauté française Wallonie-Bruxelles in French) ; all Flemish capital institutions are established here: Flemish Parliament, Flemish government and its administration.
		Brussels is also the political seat of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the Western European Union (WEU) and EUROCONTROL, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brussels (1803 words)

	Brussels
		Brussels is first a city located in the center of Belgium, but it sometimes refers to the main municipality of the Brussels-Capital Region.
		Regions are one component of Belgium's complex institutions, the three communities are another component: the Brussels people must deal with the either to the French (speaking) community or the Flemish community for matters such as culture and education.
		Brussels is also the capital of the French Community of Belgium (Communauté française Wallonie-Bruxelles in French) and the Flemish Council is also established there.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/b/br/brussels.html (893 words)

	European Parliament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Apportionment in the European Parliament is not strictly on the basis of population.
		Parliament may amend and block legislation in those policy areas that fall under the codecision procedure, which currently make up about three quarters of EU legislative acts.
		Although Brussels is generally treated as the 'capital' of the European Union, and the two institutions of the EU's executive, the Commission and the Council of Ministers, both have their seats there, a protocol attached to the Treaty of Amsterdam requires that the European Parliament have monthly sessions in Strasbourg.
	www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/European_Parliament (1685 words)

	Parliament (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The British Parliament is traditionally referred to as the "Mother of Parliaments" because it has been the model for most other parliamentary systems, and its Acts have created many other parliaments.
		In the United Kingdom, Parliament consists of the House of Commons, the House of Lords, and the Monarch.
		A nation's 'Prime Minister' is almost always the leader of the majority party in the lower house of parliament, but only holds his or her office as long as the "confidence of the house" is maintained.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/P/Parliament.htm (650 words)

	Brussels Belgium Hotel and Travel - Brussels Tourist Information Guide Bruxelles
		Brussels is considered the heartbeat and center of Europe – it is a very short distance from a number of European countries which is very convenient.
		Brussels is also a major venue for The European Union, the European Parliment and the Commission are based there which gives a very cosmopolitan air to the city, particularly during weekdays.
		Brussels is a slightly expensive city given its reputation for outstanding chocolate, waffles, world-renown beer, and top quality cuisine, but it is worth it.
	www.brusselscitytourist.com (371 words)

	Brussels-Capital Region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the same way as the other Parliaments, the Brussels-Capital Regional Parliament may not be dissolved before the end of the period that it has been elected for.
		They are consequently represented within the committees and bodies of the Parliament and are also entitled to financial allowances for their secretarial and personnel costs.
		The Parliament must propose a successor, otherwise the motion is inadmissible (it is thus a motion of constructive disapproval).
	www.hrwf.net /html/b_n_minorities_BrusselsCapitalRegion.html (905 words)

	BRUSSELS: Capital of the European Union
		Brussels was in the lead because of the improved road infrastructure (thanks to the World Exposition which took place in Brussels in 1958), and also because of the central location of the city and the neutral position of Belgium between the European powers.
		On October the 24th the European Parliament decided to construct a new seat for itself in the Quartier Léopold (Leopoldswijk) in Brussels.
		This was later confirmed by the European Court that decided "that the sessions of the European Parliament in Brussels should remain exceptional".
	www.trabel.com /brussel/brussels-europeanunion.htm (564 words)

	European Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A key activity of the EU is the establishment and administration of a common single market, consisting of a customs union, a single currency (adopted by 12 of the 25 member states), a Common Agricultural Policy, a common trade policy, and a Common Fisheries Policy.
		The most important EU institutions are the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, the European Parliament and the European Court of Justice.
		Harmonisation: member state laws are harmonised through the EU legislative process, which involves the European Commission, European Parliament and Council of the European Union.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Union (5119 words)

	European Parliament Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The most recent elections to the European Parliament were the European elections of 2004, held in June of that year.
		Neither the European Parliament nor the Council of Ministers may initiate EU legislation, this power being reserved by the Commission, and the fact that the European Parliament cannot itself propose laws makes it different from most national legislative assemblies.
		Remaining policy areas fall under either the assent procedure or (in a very few cases) the consultation procedure; under the former Parliament has power to veto but not formally amend proposals, while under the latter it has only a formal right to be consulted.
	www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/European_Parliament (1761 words)

	EP News, the electronic newsletter from www.europarl.org.uk
		The 1968 Brussels Convention, to which the member states are signatories, deals with which country has jurisdiction in disputes between consumers and traders in another country- that is, in which court the case will be heard.
		Parliament has given its backing to two proposals which should boost conservation in developing countries, endorsing deals reached with EU governments on funding for tropical forests and the greening of overseas development policy.
		Parliament's Budgets Committee meets in Brussels on 26, 27 and 28 September to examine the EU's draft budget for 2001.
	www.europarl.org.uk /news/textfiles/epnews10-21September2000.htm (550 words)

	Belgium (06/05)
		Flemish Parliament and government for regional and community affairs; Walloon Regional Parliament and government for Walloon regional affairs; Francophone Community Parliament and government for Francophone community affairs; Brussels Regional Parliament and government for Brussels regional affairs; and German-language Community Parliament and government for community affairs.
		The allocation of powers between the Parliament and the Council of Ministers is somewhat similar to the United States--the Parliament enacts legislation and appropriates funds--but the Belgian Parliament does not have the same degree of independent power that the U.S. Congress has.
		Of the 21 Senators representing the communities, 10 are elected by the Flemish Parliament, 10 by the French Community Parliament, and 1 by the German-language Parliament.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2874.htm (5830 words)

	Brussels Hotel and Travel, Brussels Belgium Hotel and Travel Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Brussels Belgium Hotel and Travel Guide - Brussels is the capital of Belgium, which is also considered by many to be the headquarters of the European Union because two of its four main institutions have made this city home to their headquarters.
		There are three official languages throughout Belgium: French, which is spoken primarily in the south of the country (Wallonia); Dutch, which is spoken in the north (Flanders) and German, which is spoken in a small area near the German border.
		You will find that the locals in Brussels are bilingual, with both French and Dutch considered their official languages.
	www.brusselshotelandtravel.com (313 words)

	Folder listing - EUbusiness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		BRUSSELS, March 16 (AFP) - Inflation in the euro zone rose to 2.6 percent in the 12 months to the end of February from 2.4 percent to January, the EU statistics office Eurostat reported on Friday.
		BRUSSELS, March 26 (AFP) - Finnish General Gustav Hagglund, 62, was Monday elected chairman of the European Union's military committee, during a meeting in Brussels of armed forces chiefs of staff from all 15 member states.
		BRUSSELS, March 28 (AFP) - The EU's top veterinary experts on Wednesday were considering an emergency request from Britain to initiate limited foot-and-mouth vaccination of cattle in its hardest-hit areas in a bid to prevent the spread of the disease.
	www.eubusiness.com /imported/2001/03 (6155 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Bombs Sent to EU Parliament Deputies, No One Hurt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Letter bombs sent to prominent European Parliament members exploded in Brussels and the British city of Manchester on Monday, and Belgium said a further seven suspect packages were intercepted.
		BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Letter bombs sent to prominent European Parliament members exploded in Brussels and the British city of Manchester on Monday, and Belgium said a further seven suspect packages were intercepted.
		The bombs that exploded were sent to Hans-Gert Poettering, head of the largest political group in the parliament, in Brussels, and to Gary Titley, leader of British Labour Party members of the parliament, in Manchester.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/01/05/bombs_sent_to_eu_parliament_deputies_no_one_hurt_1073331105 (671 words)

	Batiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Those entering the premises of the Brussels Parliament by way of the rue du Lombard find themselves in a neoclassical building dating from the beginning of the 20th century, the different storeys of which have been converted into committee rooms, and on its roof a new hemicycle has been constructed.
		All the elements of this new infrastructure are used for all parliamentary meetings of the Brussels institutions, including meetings of Commission Assemblies of both the Flemish and the French-speaking Communities.
		A commission for the purchase of works of art, consisting of members of the Parliament Office together with eight external observers from the art world (large museums and education establishments) was set up for this purpose.
	www.parlbru.irisnet.be /en/parleme/bati.htm (1158 words)

	Things to see in Brussels
		Brussels, the capital of Belgium and of the
		The "Petite Rue des Bouchers" (street of the butchers) in the medieval center of Brussels is famous for the fact that every house in the street is a restaurant.
		The most characteristic feature of Brussels is perhaps the rather anarchistically distributed architecture, sometimes splendid, sometimes ugly, but never boring, with medieval houses next to futuristic constructions, and with different houses of different heights, widths and styles, fraternally the one next to the other in any street.
	pespmc1.vub.ac.be /BRUSSEL.html (911 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Subdued night at defeated parliament
		The atmosphere in Brussels has been rather subdued all night, perhaps as a reflection of the lowest turnout ever for European elections with under 45% of eligible voters estimated to have taken part.
		A seemingly disappointed European Parliament President Pat Cox was at pains to emphasise that the election was the largest democratic exercise ever, although he agreed the performance Europe-wide was "a very differentiated one".
		All group leaders seem to agree the way to improve this sad state of affairs was to work even harder on selling the European Parliament to voters with the help of the media, which politicians argue share the blame in failing to raise voters' interests.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3803533.stm (547 words)

	Press release - No.194
		Following the July 2004 breakthrough in World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the European Parliament will hold the annual session of the Parliamentary Conference on the WTO from 24 to 26 November 2004, at the European Parliament in Brussels.
		Members of parliament from some 60 countries are expected to attend.
		The Brussels session, which will be co-chaired by the EP President, Josep Borrell, and by the IPU President, Chilean Senator Sergio Páez, will follow up on previous sessions held in Geneva in February 2003 and in Cancún in September 2003, the latter in conjunction with the Fifth WTO Ministerial Conference.
	www.ipu.org /press-e/gen194.htm (386 words)

	EP News, the electronic newsletter from www.europarl.org.uk
		MEPs will be in Brussels for parliamentary committee meetings on 22 and 23 April, followed by a plenary session on 24 and 25 April.
		Giving evidence at a public hearing organised by Parliament's Legal affairs Committee, Mr Mosley, who is President of the International Automobile Federation (FIA), called on the EU to change the date for ending tobacco advertising from July 2005 to the end of 2006.
		The European Parliament is currently considering a fresh attempt by the EU to ban tobacco advertising, with a view to replacing a previous directive which was overturned in October 2000 by the European Court of Justice, following a case brought by Germany.
	www.europarl.org.uk /news/textfiles/epnews87-18april2002.htm (761 words)

	TIMEeurope Magazine \| European Parliament
		The Parliament's 17 committees, which focus on topics ranging from legal affairs and the internal market (Kauppi's other assignment) to fisheries and women's rights, are where the E.P.'s real power lies.
		The Parliament has long been seen by younger politicians as a stepping stone to bigger roles back home and by older ones as an easy preretirement gig.
		"I think of the Parliament as an ordinary legislative office." And she's convinced its work matters, citing her own 2001 report on the E.C.B., which urged the bank to improve its transparency, as a case in point.
	www.time.com /time/europe/html/040607/story_3.html (508 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| The EU's democratic challenge
		Indeed, the political blocs in the European parliament are currently not parties at all, but simply alliances of national parties (which sometimes bring together unexpected bedfellows).
		One idea, included in the draft constitution, is to give national parliaments a "yellow card" to hold up if they think a given piece of new EU legislation would be better handled at national or regional level.
		This measure may prompt some national parliaments to scrutinise EU legislation more closely; it could also prompt them to play greater attention to what is happening in other national parliaments.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3224666.stm (1290 words)

	Oman: Bridging the Difference. A Symposium in the European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium, 19 October 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In honour of 30 years of leadership by His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said of Oman, a Sultanate of Oman Week and Exhibition is being held in Brussels from 17 to 22 October (exhibition lasts until 29 October).
		The following is the programme for the symposium at the European parliament on "Oman: Bridging the Difference" held on Thursday, 19 October 2000, 9:00 - 12:30 hours, at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium.
		The focus is on Oman's strategic importance and on the role of women in Oman's culture, society and politics.
	www.oman.org /bru00002.htm (322 words)

	CBS News \| EU Letter Bomb Spree Continues \| January 5, 2004 12:00:03
		A third letter bomb addressed to a Spanish conservative member of the EU legislature was neutralized by bomb disposal experts from the Belgian military at the Parliament's Brussels offices.
		The two letter bombs found in Brussels on Monday were identical in form and postmarked Dec. 22 in Bologna, Italy, from which the earlier attacks over the past two weeks are believed to have originated.
		Outside the Parliament's buildings, three firefighter trucks and bomb disposal squads were parked outside the legislature in central Brussels and plainclothes policemen were seen moving inside carrying metal boxes.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/01/05/world/main591258.shtml (621 words)

	Last week in Brussels the European Parliament moved one step closer to setting up a mechanism for “parliamentary ...
		The proposal to "launch a conference in Qatar on strengthening parliamentary scrutiny of the WTO" was included in the Chairman's statement following a two-day seminar organised by the parliament's Committee on External Trade, Research and Energy and attended by parliamentarians from the EU, Europe and 23 developing countries, and a handful of NGOs.
		Although the name of the seminar was encouraging -- Trade Development and Democracy: the need for reform of the WTO – the main purpose of the meeting was to push the proposal to establish a WTO parliamentary body first mooted by the European parliamentary delegation in Seattle in 1999.
		Both said that a parliamentary forum was premature and that in any case the role of parliaments is to control, rather than oversee, the WTO.
	www.focusweb.org /publications/2001/figleaf.htm (1176 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Expenses spared
		So it is extraordinary that members of the European parliament have thrown out efforts to clean up the image of a gravy train that chugs along oblivious of the damage this does to the EU's only directly elected institution.
		Mr Davies and fellow reformers, including most of his UK colleagues, demand change because they want the parliament, which plays an increasingly important role legislating for 450 million people (yesterday giving the go-ahead for Romanian and Bulgarian EU membership), to enjoy the confidence of the citizens who elect it.
		Parliament must insist that member states use their power to stop this costly travelling circus.
	www.guardian.co.uk /eu/story/0,7369,1458936,00.html (374 words)

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