Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-06-18-Speech-1-046"
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"Mr President, there may be a window of opportunity over the coming months to solve once and for all the issue of the seat of the European Parliament. It may be a small opportunity, but I would urge us to seize it.
The combination, on the one hand, of a newly elected French President who professes to be a reformer and, on the other hand, of an IGC this autumn, which is going to agree on changes to the Treaty, is surely an opportunity we should seize. Clearly, whatever solution is found would have to compensate Strasbourg if we were to move the sessions of this Parliament to Brussels, but I believe that is possible simply by holding the meetings of the European Council itself here instead. That would give Strasbourg just as much prestige as it enjoys in hosting the sessions of the Parliament, and it would have an institutional logic. The three ordinary institutions which interact daily – the ordinary Council, the Commission and Parliament – should be in the same town, but the European Council, which is supposed to be a strategic body and take a certain distance from the day-to-day operation, could usefully meet here and at the same time solve this problem we face of having to come here every month. I would urge you to take up this matter, Mr President."@en1
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