Institutional seats of the European Union are based in Luxembourg City along with the European Investment Bank. The Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions are entirely based in Brussels while the European Central Bank is based in Frankfurt and Europol is the only agency to have its seat fixed by the treaties, in The Hague. Separately, the Treaty of Nice establishes Brussels as the venue for all formal summits of the European Council after 2004. However some extraordinary sessions are sometimes held outside the city. The European Council's seat is however fixed by a declaration rather than a protocol, meaning it is
Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City is a 2002 book by historians Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse about the history of Wrocław, the largest city in western Poland. The book opens with a description of the siege and fall of German Breslau at the very end of the Second World War. The attacking Red Army reduces many streets of the city to rubble, the remaining Germans gradually withdraw. The hopeless situation of the civilians, complicated by shelling, temperatures of minus 20 and food shortages, deteriorates still further as revenge-seeking Soviet military leaders