Europa Building

The Europa building is the seat of the European Council and Council of the European Union, located on the Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat in the European Quarter of , Belgium.
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  • Type: Public building
  • Description: Seat of the European Council and Council of the EU
  • Also known as: “Europa building” and “Європа (будівля)”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: building Berlaymont and Schuman railway station.

Public building
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The Berlaymont building, or simply the Berlaymont, is an office building in , Belgium, which houses the headquarters of the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union. is situated 180 metres northeast of Europa Building.

Railway station
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Brussels-Schuman railway station is a railway station in the , Belgium, serving the European Quarter. The station received its name from the aboveground Robert Schuman Roundabout, itself named after Robert Schuman, one of the founding fathers of the European Union, the Council of Europe and NATO.

Church
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The , or the Chapel for Europe, is a church with an ecumenical vocation located in the heart of the Brussels' European Quarter, next to the former . is situated 190 metres southwest of Europa Building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include European Quarter and Squares Quarter.

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The in , is a large office area east of the center which is mostly taken up by the European Union. The district also houses the large Parc de Cinquantenaire and a beautiful, but expensive, residential area on its northern edge.

Neighborhood
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The is a quarter of , Belgium. The district is the northern spur of the European Quarter, located between and the .

Neighborhood
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The is a quarter of , Belgium. The term is sometimes confused with the European Quarter, as the area has come to be dominated by the institutions of the European Union and related organisations, although the two terms are not in fact…

Europa Building

Latitude
50.84244° or 50° 50′ 33″ north
Longitude
4.38066° or 4° 22′ 50″ east
Levels
13
Open location code
9F26R9RJ+X7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 235593434
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­public
Open­Street­Map feature
office=­government
Wiki­data ID
Q1375164
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Europa Building” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مبنى أوروبا”
  • Arabic: “مبنى يوروبا”
  • Asturian: “Edificiu Europa”
  • Basque: “Europa eraikina”
  • Catalan: “Résidence Palace”
  • Central Kurdish: “بینای ئەورووپا”
  • Chinese: “欧罗巴大厦”
  • Croatian: “Palača Europa”
  • Dutch: “Europagebouw”
  • Esperanto: “Konstruaĵo Europa”
  • Esperanto: “Rezideja Palaco”
  • Finnish: “Europa-rakennus”
  • French: “bâtiment Europa”
  • French: “Bâtiment Europa”
  • German: “Europa-Gebäude”
  • German: “Europagebäude”
  • Hebrew: “בניין אירופה”
  • Italian: “Palazzo Europa”
  • Japanese: “ヨーロッパ・ビル”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “مبنى د يوروپا”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Europabygningen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Europabygningen”
  • Norwegian: “Europabygningen”
  • Polish: “Europa (budynek)”
  • Polish: “Europa”
  • Portuguese: “Edifício Europa”
  • Romanian: “Clădirea Europa”
  • Slovenian: “Europa”
  • Slovenian: “stavba Europa”
  • Spanish: “Edificio Europa”
  • Swedish: “Europabyggnaden”
  • Turkish: “Europa binası”
  • Ukrainian: “Європа”
  • Western Frisian: “Jeropagebou”

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