Rich Europe in poor Brussels The impact of the European institutions in the Brussels Capital Region

Etienne Christiaens

City, 2003, vol. 7, issue 2, 183-198

Abstract: The European Union is transforming many aspects of urban life and policy across a growing proportion of the continent. Maloutas and Delladetsima, in the two preceding articles in this issue, explore some of the contradictions in the EU's practices and guiding concepts. In this paper Etienne Christiaens, a researcher and active citizen of Brussels, examines the EU's impacts in its own back yard. He shows how four years of opportunism, commercial greed and weak governance have led the city and its citizens into an environmental and social situation which puts Europe to shame. He ends, however, by beginning to craft a counter‐strategy in which the material resources and the rich mix of cultures drawn to the city should be democratically managed to capture the positive dimensions of internationalization.

Date: 2003
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