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"en.20130116.23.3-151-000"2
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"Mr President, the Treaties state that the European Parliament shall have its seat in Strasbourg where 12 monthly plenary sessions shall be held. The European Court of Justice has ordered that an amendment on the European Parliament’s calendar, tabled by my group, must be overturned as it is not in accordance with the Treaties. Yet its members are fully aware that Parliament does not meet in Strasbourg on a monthly basis as the Treaties require.
Why can the Parliament choose to postpone the August session, yet not be able to hold two sessions in the same week? The ruling does not make sense to me or my constituents. Why does the European Parliament meet in Strasbourg at all? There is no satisfactory answer. Member States and the European Parliament arguing whether we need to troop to Strasbourg 11 or 12 times a year appears to our citizens as if we are rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. Before we all go down with this ship, let us, once and for all, do the right thing and scrap Strasbourg."@en1
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