where is eu headquarters located?
Brussels
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 The European Council should not be mistaken for the Council of Europe , an international organisation independent of the EU based in Strasbourg . 

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 The institutions are not concentrated in a single capital city : instead , their headquarters are spread across four cities , Brussels , Luxembourg , Strasbourg and Frankfurt . The current arrangement was approved in 1992 and attached to the Treaty of Amsterdam . The treaty states that the Commission and Council would be based in Brussels , the Courts in Luxembourg and the Parliament in Strasbourg . However some departments of the Commission and meetings of the Council take place in Luxembourg , while the Parliament has its committees and some sessions in Brussels and its secretariat in Luxembourg . Of the new institutions , the Central Bank is based in Frankfurt while the European Council is based in Brussels ( but has some extraordinary meetings elsewhere ) . 

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 The European division plans , develops , implements , operates and manages real estate and infrastructure facilities in Europe and in selected regions worldwide . 

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 The IPK itself . Located in Sèvres , France . 

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 The EU 's institutional set up is also somewhat similar to the government of Switzerland ( which , although in Europe , is not an EU member state ) . The Swiss consensus @-@ driven system is seen as successfully uniting a state divided by language and religion , although the EU was not directly modelled on the Swiss system despite bearing a number of similarities . The European Commission has similarities to the Swiss Federal Council in that both have all @-@ party representation and are appointed on the basis of nationality rather than popularity . The President of the Federal Council rotates between its members each year , in a fashion similar to that of the EU 's Council Presidency . Due to this system of presidency Swiss leaders , like those of the EU , are relatively unknown with national politics viewed as somewhat technocratic resulting in low voter turnout , in a similar fashion to that of the European Parliament . Other parallels include the jealously guarded powers of states , the considerable level of translation and the choice of a lesser city as the capital . 
