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"On Thursday, 16 February, Parliament was called on to vote on its administrative budget for 2013. This budget would not have posed any major problems were it not for the tabling of an amendment requesting that the European Parliament should have only a single seat. To my great regret, that amendment was adopted, thereby paving the way for an internal battle between supporters and opponents of the Strasbourg seat. For the sake of convenience, some work is carried out in Brussels, but we should not forget that Strasbourg is the only official seat of the European Parliament; it is the symbol of reconciliation between France and Germany, and the symbol of European unity that the founding fathers wished for. Today, MEPs have declared open war on Strasbourg. However, a report written by the European Association of Young Entrepreneurs, presented on 14 February, overturns the financial, institutional and environmental arguments put forward by critics. I therefore call on the Members of the European Parliament to respect the letter of the Treaties, because, if we were to take this reasoning even further, why not make Strasbourg the only seat of the European Parliament?"@en1
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