Use By The European Union Institutions
The second-level domain .europa.eu has been reserved for EU institution sites, with institutions and agencies making the switch from .eu.int to .europa.eu domains on the Europe day of 9 May 2006. The European Central Bank is however not under the "Europa umbrella" due to its political independence, and uses only ECB.int, but ecb.europa.eu is an alias.
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