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"The European Treaty stipulates that the European Parliament has an official workplace both in Brussels and in Strasbourg. In order for any changes to be made to this arrangement, such as having just one official workplace, the changes would have to be ratified in all the European Member States. The French Government will never support such a proposal. If, however, France were ever to support it, I believe that the majority of the other countries would quickly agree to it, since travel by MEPs and officials between these two workplaces is really a huge, absurd waste of European taxpayers’ money. Recent suggestions about the confirmation of a single official workplace for the European Parliament at the moment appear to be a cheap attempt to win popularity and lay claim to a sham frugality. It is exactly for these reasons that I supported the position of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) by voting against the motion for a resolution."@en1
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