歐洲的心臟

比利時的首都布魯塞爾?Brussels?被稱為歐洲的心臟,歐盟的總部就在布魯塞爾。

布魯塞爾的地標——大廣場?Grand Place。圖片來源:圖蟲創(chuàng)意

事實上,現(xiàn)在國際上提起歐盟的時候,常常直接說“布魯塞爾怎樣怎樣”。

布魯塞爾云集了全世界各國的外交官和外媒記者,其數(shù)量和美國的華盛頓一起冠絕全球。

Together with Washington D.C., Brussels has the highest number of diplomats and foreign press correspondents in the world. Since the end of the Second World War, it has been a major centre for international politics and the home of numerous international organisations, politicians, diplomats and civil servants. Brussels is the de facto capital of the European Union, as it hosts a number of principal EU institutions, including its administrative-legislative, executive-political, and legislative branches (though the judicial branch is located in Luxembourg, and the European Parliament meets for a minority of the year in Strasbourg) and its name is sometimes used metonymically to describe the EU and its institutions.
布魯塞爾和華盛頓一樣,聚集了世界上最多的外交官和外國媒體記者。自二戰(zhàn)結(jié)束以來,布魯塞爾就一直是國際政治的中心,也是眾多國際組織、政客、外交官和公務(wù)員的常駐地。歐盟的首都其實是布魯塞爾,因為歐盟的許多重要機構(gòu)都在布魯塞爾,其中包括歐盟行政管理、執(zhí)政和立法機構(gòu)(盡管歐盟的司法部門位于盧森堡,而歐洲議會偶爾在斯特拉斯堡召開會議)。有時候,布魯塞爾還被用來代指歐盟及其機構(gòu)。

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