City officials say the capital of Europe's biggest economy needs an airport worthy of its status.

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Berne, the capital city of Switzerland, lies at the foot of the Alps in Central Europe.

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Rather, the difference reflected the more open, cosmopolitan, "Europe-friendly" feelings of people in the capital city, compared to the more traditional values of the countryside, with its nostalgia for Sweden's "separate identity".

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From Europe there are only a few flights a week to the capital city of Kigali.

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City of London said the building was a "major vote of confidence in the City's status as Europe's financial capital".

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The most direct land route would take the pair straight through some of the region's most dangerous areas, including the Iraqi capital Baghdad, into war-torn Syria and straight through the embattled city of Aleppo to the Turkish border and on to Europe.

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But while the city that embraced the rule-breaking Bauhaus movement may have found a new role as the unofficial art capital of Europe, it's nothing like Paris or New York: No one teeters around its cobblestone streets in high heels, no one asks what anyone else does for a living or how much they make doing it.

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