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   From: evleth@wanadoo.fr   
      
   in article _N4sd.18$mN.15@fe11.lga, Lynn Guini at LynnG@PastaNSauce.com   
   wrote on 3/12/04 22:21:   
      
   > What's this I hear...Emperor Jacque has decided that Paris will be the   
   > capitol of the EU? I wonder if he has asked anyone else of their opinion?   
   >   
      
   Disinformation and you are trolling.   
      
   Brussels is effectively "it", and Strasbourg in 2nd place.  The big question   
   is why two places?  Nothing is likely to change the present situation.   
   As the EU moves east it might be more logical to move the "Capitol"   
   to the east. Vienna, for example?   
      
   It has to be a relatively cosmopolitan city that people want to live and   
   work in.  Certainly, Paris is the center of the universe and would   
   served that purpose (I live here by choice).  I personally   
   think Strasbourg, bordering on France and Germany and has some elements   
   of Germanic culture, qualifies as a "cosmopolitan city".   
      
   As for Brussels, is has long served as the administrative center for NATO   
   and has a "cosmopolitan" character.  The only criticism of Brussels   
   I have heard was devastating. Woody Allen once said that Brussels   
   made Philadelphia look interesting.  By he is a New York nationalist.   
   But we Parisians understand what he means.   
      
   Earl   
      
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