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The city is headquarters of the [[European Union]], and the term 'Brussels' is frequently used as a synonym for the EU and its tortuous bureaucracy.  The Commission, Council and Parliament of the EU all meet in Brussels employing some 30,000 people which makes Brussels a target for more lobbyists than in Washington DC.

The city is headquarters of the [[European Union]], and the term 'Brussels' is frequently used as a synonym for the EU and its tortuous bureaucracy.  The Commission, Council and Parliament of the EU all meet in Brussels employing some 30,000 people which makes Brussels a target for more lobbyists than in Washington DC.

[[NATO]] is also headquartered in Brussels where approximately 4000 people work for the political structure of NATO. <ref>http://www.nato.int/structur/tenders/newhq3/index.htm</ref>  

[[NATO]] is also headquartered in Brussels where approximately 4000 people work for the political structure of NATO.<ref>http://www.nato.int/structur/tenders/newhq3/index.htm</ref>  

Brussels was home to the 1958 Worlds Fair for which the Atomium, a 103 meter tall building blown up 165 billion times which represents a unit cell of an iron crystal, was built.

Brussels was home to the 1958 Worlds Fair for which the Atomium, a 103 meter tall building blown up 165 billion times which represents a unit cell of an iron crystal, was built.

*[[Flemish School of Painting]]

*[[Flemish School of Painting]]

==External Links==

==External links==

*[http://www.naturalsciences.be/ Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences]

*[http://www.naturalsciences.be/ Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences]