Damaini was ignorant of chess and prejudiced against it. He said that playing chess made  a buffoon of a priest.  Damiani's denunciation of chess led to a number of ecclesiastical decrees which put chess among the games forbidden to the clergy and monastic orders.

During the Sinquefield Cup in September 2024, a controversy arose involving the chess grandmasters Magnus Carlsen, then world champion, and Hans Niemann. Carlsen, after surprisingly losing in their third-round matchup, dropped out of the tournament.

The European Parliament has a number of venues in Brussels, for individual or group visits. This includes the 'hemicycles' where EU laws are debated and voted on, the EU's interactive visitor centre - the Parlamentarium - the House of European history and Station Europe.

The European Unique Identifier (EUID) enables the identification of companies and their branches in other Member States in the Business Registers Interconnection System (hereinafter referred to as: BRIS).