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". – I find the budget laid aside for the nonsensical tracking backwards and forwards from Brussels to Strasbourg almost impossible to support. There is no reason for such absurd peregrinations on political or economic, organisational or geographical grounds. It leads to inefficiency and waste.
Unfortunately too many of the public believe this nonsense is a decision of Parliament and are not aware it is the product of the unholy deal done for the worst of all reasons at Edinburgh in 1992 under the presidency of John Major. Britain got a declaration on subsidiarity, an opt-out on the social chapter, thankfully overturned by the Labour victory in 1997. Germany got the recognition of Croatia and former Yugoslavia and, in consequence, a series of interlocking civil wars the results of which colour European history still today, and hence the perpetuation of an absurdity in Strasbourg we all hoped would finally end.
We are now left stranded in Strasbourg until Parliament finds the political will to exert its own best interests and remove itself to Brussels with the odd symbolic sojourn in Strasbourg for formal occasions."@en1
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