What image does Brussels want to project as a capital city within the European Union and beyond? What are the indisputable qualities of the European presence in Brussels? How can Brussels consciously do justice to its European mission and be a true embodiment of the European political project? The publication attempts to answer these questions by linking architecture’s representative role to the future of Europe. The result of a Berlage Institute research studio led by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Elia Zenghelis in 2005–2006, an international team of 16 architects and urbanists investigates questions and devises a plan for the possible future of the Capital of Europe. It is a pamphlet that treats the city’s self-evident, hidden or forgotten qualities as building blocks for a tangible theoretical and architectural project that revolves around the relations between the European institutions and the city. By adopting a critical perspective, the pamphlet discusses the European Union’s future and its capital city as concrete, palpable and accessible, rescuing it from a discourse that often remains abstract.