First seat of the Commission of the European Economic Community (EEC), Avenue de la Joyeuse Entrée, Brussels.

The European Commission building ('the Breydel building') in Brussels.

In 1959, the Belgian State acquires the land of the Berlaymont monastery with a view to using it for the construction of a building that, in 1967, will become the main seat of the European Commission in Brussels, the ‘Berlaymont’ Building.

The European Commission building ('the Berlaymont building') in Brussels.

Published on 6 May 1991 in the Spanish daily newspaper El País, this article announces the start of renovation work on the European Commission’s Berlaymont Building in Brussels.

In this interview, Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb, Belgian Foreign Minister from 1980 to 1981 and former President of the Chamber of Representatives, describes the importance for Belgium of the Brussels-based seats of the European Commission and NATO.

In an address given to the European Quarter Foundation in Brussels on 25 November 2003, Neil Kinnock, Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner with special responsibility for administrative reform, outlines the main features of the institution's property policy in the Belgian capital.

In its 7 September 2004 issue, the Bulletin Quotidien Europe looks at the forthcoming arrival of EU officials at the Berlaymont Building in Brussels, which has been renovated and had asbestos removed from its structure. The article emphasises the advantages of the new structure as well as the cost of the project.

On 21 October 2004, in Brussels, in the presence of the Belgian Prime Minister, Romano Prodi, President of the Commission, gives an address at the inauguration of the Berlaymont Building, following the long period of renovation work.