Strasbourg

:For other places named Strasburg or Straßburg see Strasburg.

European role

Strasbourg is sometimes regarded as:

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• the capital of Europe as a whole, as the seat of the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights (informally known as the "Strasbourg Court"); and
• the "democratic capital" of the European Union, as the first seat of the European Parliament and the only place where the whole parliament regularly meets. The executive capital —Brussels, Belgium— where the MEPs work for the majority of the time is often considered to be the European Union's unofficial capital.

Strasbourg also houses the Eurocorps headquarter

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France and Germany are negotiating the creation of a Eurodistrict straddling the Rhine river combining the Greater Strasbourg and the Ortenau district of Baden-Württemberg, with some common administration. The combined population of this "European Washington, D.C." would be 860,000.

Related Topics:
Eurodistrict - Ortenau - Baden-Württemberg - Washington, D.C.

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