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The secretariat of the European Parliament is the administrative body of the European Parliament. It resides in Luxembourg. The European Parliament is the parliamentary body of the European Union (EU), directly elected by EU citizens once every five years. ... The Old town, seen from the ground Luxembourg City, population 82,268 (2002), is the capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. ...
Supporters of the European Union argue that the growth of the EU is a force for peace and democracy.
Examples are the EUROPOL (the European Police Office), the European Environment Agency, the European Aviation Safety Agency or the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market, the Political and Security Committee, established in the context of the Common Foreign and Security Policy, monitoring and advising on international issues of global security.
The European Communities are one of the three pillars of the European Union, being both the most important pillar and the only one to operate primarily through supranational institutions.
The debating chamber, the 'hemicycle' of the EuropeanParliament in Brussels.
Although Brussels is generally treated as the 'capital' of the European Union, and the two institutions of the EU's executive, the European Commission and the Council of Ministers, both have their seats there, a protocol attached to the Treaty of Amsterdam requires that the EuropeanParliament have monthly sessions in Strasbourg.
Thus the EuropeanParliament is sometimes informally referred to as the 'Strasbourg Parliament' and Strasbourg as the democratic (opposed to bureaucratic) capital of Europe.
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