Strasbourg is one of the nine largest cities in France with nearly half a million inhabitants in a metropolitan area spanning across the river into the Germany|German city of Kehl, on the eastern bank of the Rhine.The city itself is the seat of the Council of Europe, the European Court of Human Rights, the European Ombudsman, the Eurocorps, the European Audiovisual Observatory and, most famously, the European Parliament
http://www.europarl.eu.int/home/default_en.html, which also holds sessions in Brussels. http://wikitravel.org/en/Strasbourg