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Gare du Strasbourg.....EU institutions
Strasbourg is also one of Europe's political capitals.
It is after World War II, that the idea of European reconciliation led to the founding of the Council of Europe. Strasbourg was selected to be the seat of that institution and became the symbol of European unity and construction. The Council of Europe includes all the democratic states of the Old Continent. All these countries meet in a Parliamentary Assembly to debate on the use of democracy.
The European Parliament is the only European Union institution in France and at the 1992 Edinburgh summit, it was confirmed that it will continue to be based in Strasbourg. The Members of Parliament meet once a month in Strasbourg.
Strasbourg is also home of the European Court and Commission for Human Rights, a judicial body of the Council of Europe founded in 1959. Its goal is to monitor if the bill signed by all member states of the Council of Europe on Human rights is observed.
Strasbourg, Geneva and New York shares the privilege of being the seat of international institutions without being a state capital.
