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"Once again, some MEPs have chosen to re-open the debate on the single seat of the European Parliament during the vote on the report on Parliament’s estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2013. If that is their ambition, then let us talk about it! Furthermore, I would therefore invite them to re-read the treaties that regulate our institutional system: the official seat of the European Parliament is in Strasbourg and although, for the sake of convenience, we have transferred some activities to Brussels and Luxembourg, we cannot dispute the legal basis that brings us together. Strasbourg is, first and foremost, a symbolic referent, the will of the founding fathers to wipe clean the marks of war and bring France and Germany together based on joint ambitions. I am surprised today by the determination of some of my more recent colleagues to want to contest this symbol of Europe, even though by joining the European Community and then the European Union, the nations they represent have recognised in their entirety the principles and symbols that unite citizens across the European project."@en1
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