MEPs to decide over EU Parliament's Strasbourg site
Backers of a contested bid to move the European Parliament's seat from Strasbourg in France to Brussels scored a point Wednesday when a vote ruled that MEPs should have the last word.
(AFP) Backers of a contested bid to move the European Parliament's seat from Strasbourg in France to Brussels scored a point Wednesday when a vote ruled that MEPs should have the last word.
A resolution adopted by 483 votes to 141, with 34 abstentions, called for a change in the European Union treaty to allow parliament itself, rather than member states by unanimous vote, to decide on where it should sit.
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